GLOSSARY A NDREW C OLLEGE , Cuthbert , Georgia . A Methodist college about 50 miles south of Columbus, Georgia. Named for Bishop James Osgood Andrew of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, it was chartered as Andrew Female College in 1854. In 1917, it became a junior college, and became coeducational in 1956. It began developing 4-year programs in 2018. B ARTOW C OUNTY , G EORGIA . Located about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta in the Appalachian foothills, it was formed from Cherokee County in 1832. Initially named Cass County, in 1861 it was renamed for Colonel Francis S. Bartow, the first Georgia officer killed at the First Battle of Bull Run. Bartow County is home to the Etowah Mounds that Native Americans built between 950 A.D. and 1450 A.D. Cartersville is the county seat. C HAPEL . Built in 1839, Greenwood and nearby residents used it like a community center. Traveling preachers conducted services at the chapel. The pastor of a nearby Presbyterian church regularly conducted services in the building. Lectures, musical programs, school exercises are some of the many other types of activities held there. Members of Greenwood Methodist church probably attended services at the chapel until they found a church building of their own. C HARLES C OUNTY , M ARYLAND . Charles County is located on the east bank of the Potomac River. Its county seat La Plata is 37 miles south of Washington, D.C. Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia is on the west bank of the river opposite Charles County. Port Tobacco, settled in 1634, once was the county seat and Maryland’s second largest seaport. C HEROKEE P ATH . What started as an Indian footpath, developed into a large trading path that crossed the entire state of South Carolina. It connected Charleston with the Cherokee Indians of South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. It was once a direct route for traders and trappers, Native Americans, and settlers to exchange merchandise between the backcountry and the Carolina coast. During the American Revolution, rebel militia of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia used the Cherokee Path as a military road against the Cherokee, who had raided frontier settlements in June 1776, and were allied with the British Loyalists. C HINESE S UGARCANE . ( Saccharum sinense ) is less expensive than sugarcane ( S.Officinarum ) as a food source for humans and animals. It is a tall perennial grass cultivated mainly in China and India. More tolerant of lower temperatures and drier conditions than sugarcane, it is considered to be of inferior quality as the stems contain more fiber and the juice contains less sugar. C HOOTA T OWN . The Overhill Cherokee village of Chota was located in the Little Tennessee River valley of eastern Tennessee in present-day Monroe County, about 10 miles south of modern-day Vonore. (Overhill Cherokee refers to the settlements of the 18th-century Cherokee in eastern Tennessee. The name Overhill comes from the geographic location of the Cherokees and the need to travel over the mountains from South Carolina to reach them.) Along with Tanasi, Chota was one of the two Overhill towns recognized as a “capital” of the Cherokee Nation throughout the 1700s. During the American Revolution, Chota was destroyed by continental forces.
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