Settlement
In 1777, Chief Dragging Canoe and several hundred Cherokee warriors migrated to the Chickamauga Creek after objecting to a treaty between Cherokees and a land speculator. They became known as the Chickamaugas, and eventually moved farther down the Tennessee River below The Suck; to the other end of the Tennessee River Gorge. There they built the "Five Lower Towns" at Running Water and further downriver. Between 1777 and 1782, the so-called "Chickamaugas" had a town called Tsatanugi (or Chatanuga), here, that was re-established after the end of the Chickamauga Wars in 1794 and lasted until the Cherokee Removal.
Daniel Ross, a young Scottish immigrant, came to the area in 1785 and worked at a trading post with John McDonald, the area's first businessman. Ross married McDonald's daughter and the two built a house in what was to become St. Elmo after the Wars. Their youngest son, John Ross, was the leader of the Cherokee Nation who would call for passive resistance to the federal Indian removal policies that led to the Trail of Tears in 1838.
Read more about this topic: St. Elmo Historic District (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
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“[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)