Welcome to the TNGenWeb Special Projects website for the Ocoee District Land Records.

Included on the site is overview information about this collection, maps, and an index of individuals mentioned in the record collection.

The Ocoee District are the ceded lands that existed as a result of the 1835 Cherokee Removal Treaty.  This treaty ceded all remaining land of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi River.  Having given the Nation three years to move west, the final removal, per the treaty, was in 1838.  This portion of the Removal is the specific “Trail of Tears”…. being the portion in which the remaining citizens were forced from their homes to immigrate to Oklahoma.

These records span individuals in Bradley, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, McMinn, Monroe, and Polk counties and come from the Tennessee State Library & Archives’ Record Group 50.

This TNGenWeb Special Project is brought to you by TNGenWeb Special Project Coordinator Joyce Gaston Reece and former Dekalb County Coordinator David Johnson.