Tanasi
Tanasi was a Cherokee Indian settlement on the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County in Tennessee , in the southeastern United States . The village was the namesake for the state of Tennessee. The settlement was abandoned in the 19th century. It was considered the capital of the Cherokee from 1721 to 1730 and was replaced by the neighboring Chota .
Tanasi is listed as a cultural monument on the National Register of Historic Places .
In the 1980s, a memorial was erected on the banks of the Tellico Lake reservoir above Tanasi, commemorating the history of the settlement and the origin of the name Tennessee.
Web links
- Tanasi allthingscherokee.com
- Tanasi Memorial
Coordinates: 35 ° 32 '59.6 " N , 84 ° 7' 37.3" W.