Topic ID #12848 - posted 7/12/2011 11:39 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Group says strange tree formations may mark Native American trails
Jennifer Palmer
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Group says strange tree formations may mark Native American trails
By Brandee A. Thomas bthomas@gainesvilletimes.com
POSTED: July 12, 2011 1:30 a.m.
While working to build trails in Northeast Georgia, a group of area hikers stumbled down a path that would lead them on a historical scavenger hunt across the country.
The hidden treasure: Trails created hundreds of years ago by Native Americans, which are seemingly marked by curiously bent, or marker, trees.
"When we first started all of this, we thought all of the marker trees we found were done only by Cherokee Indians and were only in Northeast Georgia," said Don Wells, president of the Mountain Stewards organization, during a recent meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega.
Read more here.
By Brandee A. Thomas bthomas@gainesvilletimes.com
POSTED: July 12, 2011 1:30 a.m.
While working to build trails in Northeast Georgia, a group of area hikers stumbled down a path that would lead them on a historical scavenger hunt across the country.
The hidden treasure: Trails created hundreds of years ago by Native Americans, which are seemingly marked by curiously bent, or marker, trees.
"When we first started all of this, we thought all of the marker trees we found were done only by Cherokee Indians and were only in Northeast Georgia," said Don Wells, president of the Mountain Stewards organization, during a recent meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega.
Read more here.
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