Hello, welcome to this new venture for me. I am new to blogging and hope you will be patient with me as I start this journey. I want to share the history I have learned. My studies over the last 38 years focused on the community of Turkeytown, Etowah County, Alabama, originally Cherokee County. I wish to show the voices of the Cherokee people who lived here. I will post twice a month, the first Tuesday and the third Tuesday.

If you try to research Turkeytown, you will get a varied view of many different historians of the past. They have several locations for Turkeytown. Several different timelines of when it was established. The people who lived here are never explained. Chief Little Turkey is credited for its name. Hint of study, Little Turkey is not his name. That brings up Turkeytown, which is not the name of the village either.

I hope you will bear with me and join me. I will use historical records. These records are now easier to locate and study. They will help bring the voice of the Cherokee people to the forefront. I must credit a friend, Michael Wren, for locating and making many of the records available. He is a board member of the National Trail of Tears. He leads their research on the national level.

January 8th will be the first post. “Uncovering the History of Turkeytown, Part 1, Intro, When a Name is not a Name.”