ROSSVILLE, GEORGIA 30741

John Ross House
will be open for tours from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through
Saturday until the end of August.

The "OLD FEDERAL ROAD,"
first passed through Rossville, GA in 1805
after the Tellico Cherokee Indian Treaty.
(Route # 27 today, through downtown Rossville)

In Rossville, The Old Federal Road and The Cherokee's Trail of Tears are the same.

Chief John Ross

Who cried first?
Who knew first?
Who caused the tears?

Rossville, GA
History Links

In Rossville, 25 years after
the forced removal of the Cherokees, Civil War Mayhem visited this town.

During the Civil War, Rossville was known as the Rossville Gap, a "land gap" through Missionary Ridge Mountain, to the small town of Chickamauga, an unknown Confederate Stronghold at the time.

The large Iowa Civil War monument to the left is located in the center of The Gap.

Rossville, GA. is a Gateway into an Indian land-grabed area and a Gateway into America's Bloodiest Battlefield named Chickamauga.

Chickamauga in the Cherokee
tounge means "River of Death."

National Park since 1890's

Rossville Gap-Map
Trail of Tears to a River of Death

Did you see
the Blockbuster Documentary?
CHICKAMAUGA
RIVER OF DEATH

The Battle for Chickamauga!
Satellite View of Rossville, GA
Route # 27, McFarland &
Chickamauga Avenues