Cherokee Plantation is a historic house in Fort Payne , Alabama . The house was built in 1821 as a two-story log cabin by Andrew Ross , a judge on the Cherokee Supreme Court and brother of Principal Chief John Ross . In 1834 a second log cabin was built connected to the rear of the original cabin , and a third was built to the northeast , separated by a breezeway . Ross , being one-eighth Cherokee , was forced to leave his home in 1838 under the provisions of the Treaty of New Echota , of which Ross was a signatory ; a portion of the Cherokee Trail of Tears passes in front of the house
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Cherokee Plantation (Fort Payne, Alabama)