The excellent Cherokee Heritage Center features Native American–led tours through a re-creation of a pre-European-contact woodland village and 1890s reservation life. It lies on 44 heavily wooded acres, the grounds of the former Cherokee Female Seminary, the first public institution of higher learning for women west of the Mississippi.
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Cherokee Heritage Center
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