GREAT TELLICO HISTORY DAY – AMERICA 250

Experience 18th-century life in Tellico Plains
From the Revolutionary era through the Forced Cherokee Removal of 1838
FREE Admission & Parking
Museum Admission Always Free
Food Trucks On Site
Handmade Goods & Crafts For Sale by Cherokee and Early Settler Demonstrators
Cherokee Culture
• Cherokee Flute Music & Storytelling
• Traditional Friendship Dance (Tsalagi Singing)
• Write Your Name In The Cherokee Syllabary
• Cherokee Encampments & Traditional Games
• Woodcarving (Clan Masks & Traditional)
• Selu (Corn) Soup
• Moccasin Making & Traditional Dress
• Animals in Cherokee Stories
Early History
• Hernando de Soto Encampment
• Musket Firing (Fort Loudoun British soldier)
• Lt. Henry Timberlake’s Travels (Sequoyah Birthplace Museum)
• 1800s Period Dress Contest (Prizes Awarded)
• Tennessee Trail Of Tears Association Removal History & Meeting
• Monroe County Trail Of Tears Sign Dedication
Traditional Skills & Music
• Blacksmithing & Iron Ore Smelting
• Loom Weaving (Rigid Heddle & Potholder Looms)
• Hand Needlework, Quilting & Penny Rugs
• Basketry & Splint-Style Seat Weaving
• Crosscut Saw Demonstrations
• Appalachian Herbal Remedies & Folklore Medicine
• Play Traditional Old-Time Appalachian Instruments
• Mountain Music String Band (Live Music)
Presented in partnership with the Tennessee Trail of Tears Association
Funded in part under an agreement with state of TN administered by the Tennessee Commission for the U.S. Semiquincentennial.