New Echota Historic Site

09/02/2026

Join our Rangers and Volunteers to give park to your favorite historic site, New Echota-Cherokee Capitol. This annual event is state wide and is a way for you to give back to the State Park and Historic Site near you. Admission fees are waved for all participants. Call our office for more info at 706.624.1321. Groups must preregister.
gastateparks.org/NewEchota

09/01/2026

Join us for a day of history, fun, and learning. The volunteers and Rangers of the site will be roving around the site as Cherokee artisans demonstrate crafts and other traditional aspects of their culture.
gastateparks.org/NewEchota

09/01/2026

08/15/2026

Congrats to the newest Jr. Rangers of New Echota. This mom and daughter team are traveling around the state for the Jr. Ranger program. Keep up the great work, ladies!!!
gastateparks.org/NewEchota

08/14/2026

Today, August 14th, 1831, in New Echota history Jerusha Worcester died and was later buried in cemetery located on property. The child born was born on February 27th, 1831 and died just a few short months later. She was the 3rd daughter born to the Worcester family while they lived here in the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Samuel Worcester was away at the time of the child's death and when he returned to New Echota to console his family the GA guard arrested him for a 3rd time. After the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation the Worcester family followed the nation to the west. They would go on to have a total of 7 children before their deaths in the mid 19th century.
gastateparks.org/NewEchota

08/13/2026

Serving as Lawyers, State Legislators, Georgia Governors, U.S. House of Representatives Members, U.S. Senate Members, Georgia Indian Commissioner, and in other public office roles, George Gilmer and Wilson Lumpkin served Georgia during the tumultuous years of the late 1820’s-1838 period. Instrumental in pursuing Creek and Cherokee Removal from Georgia during their tenure as Governors and in Congress, both Lumpkin and Gilmer were honored with North Georgia Counties being named for them.
Named in honor of Lumpkin’s daughter Martha Atalanta Lumpkin, the railroad settlement—originally known as Terminus—was officially incorporated as Marthasville in 1843 before it was renamed Atlanta in 1845.