501 Riverside Parkway | Rome, Georgia 30161 | 706-291-9494
ROME AREA HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Chieftains is pleased to announce that a grant from the Rome Area Heritage Foundation has made possible in part the preservation and documentation of the Robert E. Lee letters, general order #9 and Stonewall Jackson’s injury, which were part of the history of the house when the Addison Jones Family lived here. Jones’ son was a courier who carried the letters for Lee.
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home
501 Riverside Parkway | Rome, Georgia 30161
Mailing Address: PO Box 373 | Rome, Georgia 30162
706-291-9494
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home is a National Historic Landmark and one of only a few private entities to be certified by the National Park Service as a site on the Trail of Tears. Major Ridge, whose old home Chieftains now occupies, was one of the signers of the Treaty of New Echota, which resulted in the forced relocation of the Cherokee people.