Also located on the grounds of the Cherokee Heritage Center is the Tsa-La-Gi Theater, a 1,200 seat outdoor amphitheater, nestled on a hillside where special programs are held, including the Trail of Tears drama, a must see evening of intense drama, pageantry, and dance, wherein unfolds the bittersweet story of the Cherokee, torn from his ancestral home in the Eastern highlands and forced to begin life anew in the strange and foreboding wilderness that would one day become the state of Oklahoma.
The Murrell Home was built in the new Cherokee Nation about 1845 by George M. Murrell. Murrell was a native Virginain who married Minerva Ross in 1834. Minerva was a member of a wealthy mixed-blood Cherokee/Scottish family, and the niece of Chief John Ross.
Tahlequah, OK MuseumsThis four-year regional university has a long and colorful heritage which began in 1846 when the Cherokee National Council authorized establishment of the National Male Seminary and National Female Seminary.
Tahlequah, OK Historic BuildingsAdams Corner Rural Village is a detailed reconstruction of a small crossroads community of 1875 - 1890, in the final years of the old Cherokee Nation. The Heritage Farm exhibits livestock commonly found on Cherokee farms along with endangered domestic breeds.
Tahlequah, OK Museums
With the faith and courage of their forefathers who made possible the freedom of these United States.
The Boy Scouts of America
Dedicated this replica of the statue of liberty as a pledge of everlasting fidelity and loyalty.
Erected in 1913 by the Colonial William Penn Adair Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Tahlequah, OK MemorialsSecond Battle of Cabin Creek. ...