Chieftains Museum Major Ridge Home

Chieftains Museum, also known as the Major Ridge Home, is a two-story house built in 1792 in Cherokee country (present-day Rome, Georgia). It was the home of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge — notable for his role in negotiating and signing the Treaty of New Echota of 1835, which ceded the remainder of Cherokee lands in the Southeast to the United States. The chiefs had agreed they could not go to war against the United States on the removal issue, but many wanted to resist for a longer period.