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The '''Massacre at Ywahoo Falls''', also called the '''Great Cherokee Children Massacre''', alleged to have occurred on Friday, August 10, 1810, at [[Yahoo Falls|Ywahoo Falls]] in the [[Daniel Boone National Forest]] in south-east [[Kentucky]], in which women and children of the [[Cherokee]] were massacred. |
The '''Massacre at Ywahoo Falls''', also called the '''Great Cherokee Children Massacre''', alleged to have occurred on Friday, August 10, 1810, at [[Yahoo Falls|Ywahoo Falls]] in the [[Daniel Boone National Forest]] in south-east [[Kentucky]], in which women and children of the [[Cherokee]] were massacred. |
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==The massacre== |
==The massacre== |
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In order that the women and children of the [[Cumberland river]] valley might acquire a white-man's education, the Reverend [[Gideon Blackburn]] proposed to open a school on Cherokee land near [[Chattanooga]], and on the day in question it was arranged that anybody seeking protection at the school should meet at [[Yahoo Falls]] at full moon; they were to be led by Cornblossom, daughter of the War Chief [[Doublehead]]. However, whilst the women and children were waiting for Cornblossom in the rock house behind the falls, another group of Cherokee fighters arrived, authorized by the United States War Department and the Governor of the territory and led by Hiram "Big Tooth" Gregory, from the settlement of [[Franklin, Tennessee]]. They proceeded to massacre the assembled women and children in order to eliminate competition for land and government resources. |
In order that the women and children of the [[Cumberland river]] valley might acquire a white-man's education, the Reverend [[Gideon Blackburn]] proposed to open a school on Cherokee land near [[Chattanooga]], and on the day in question it was arranged that anybody seeking protection at the school should meet at [[Yahoo Falls]] at full moon; they were to be led by Cornblossom, daughter of the War Chief [[Doublehead]]. However, whilst the women and children were waiting for Cornblossom in the rock house behind the falls, another group of Cherokee fighters arrived, authorized by the United States War Department and the Governor of the territory and led by Hiram "Big Tooth" Gregory, from the settlement of [[Franklin, Tennessee]]. They proceeded to massacre the assembled women and children in order to eliminate competition for land and government resources. |
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==Controversy== |
==Controversy== |
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Revision as of 18:53, 30 August 2010
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The Massacre at Ywahoo Falls, also called the Great Cherokee Children Massacre, alleged to have occurred on Friday, August 10, 1810, at Ywahoo Falls in the Daniel Boone National Forest in south-east Kentucky, in which women and children of the Cherokee were massacred.
The massacre
In order that the women and children of the Cumberland river valley might acquire a white-man's education, the Reverend Gideon Blackburn proposed to open a school on Cherokee land near Chattanooga, and on the day in question it was arranged that anybody seeking protection at the school should meet at Yahoo Falls at full moon; they were to be led by Cornblossom, daughter of the War Chief Doublehead. However, whilst the women and children were waiting for Cornblossom in the rock house behind the falls, another group of Cherokee fighters arrived, authorized by the United States War Department and the Governor of the territory and led by Hiram "Big Tooth" Gregory, from the settlement of Franklin, Tennessee. They proceeded to massacre the assembled women and children in order to eliminate competition for land and government resources.
Controversy
Doubt has been expressed as to whether the massacre ever actually occurred.[1][2][3]There are apparantly no contemporary records that document (or even mention) the massacre, nor any that record the existence of a princess named Cornblossom. Though the story is recorded as Cherokee oral history,[4] it is unlikely that such an event could have gone completely undocumented, and no evidence has been found.[1] The first written record of Cornblossom seems to occur in 1958 in a publication called Legion of the Lost Mine by Thomas H. Troxel,[5] but Troxel admits in the foreword to his book that some of the characters in it are fictitious (though he doesn't say which). There is no mention of the massacre in this book; the first mention of that seems to be in 1975.[6]
References
- ^ a b Welsch, Anthony (14 September 2007). "Mystery Monument: history or just 'story'?". Retrieved 29 August 2010.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Kunesh, Tom. "The Ywahoo falls massacre - fact or fiction?". Retrieved 28 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Perry, Sam. "Yahoo Falls -- An Historic Overview". Retrieved 28 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Dan Troxell. "The Great Cherokee Children Massacre at Ywahoo Falls". Manuscript. Available at Research Department, Kentucky Historical Society. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ Troxel, Thomas H. (1958) Legion of the Lost Mine, Cumberland Publishing Company, Oneida, Tennessee
- ^ Collins, Robert F. (1975). Ellison, Betty B. (ed.). A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest 1770-1970. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region.