Editing Murray County, Georgia (section)

===Cherokees===
The area was in the heart of the Cherokee Nation at the time the boundary lines were drawn through the territory. Not until after the Cherokees were removed in 1838–39 did white settlers enter the county in large numbers. Spring Place had been established in 1801 as a [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] mission to the Cherokee and had been a post office since 1810 – the second oldest in North Georgia. After the Cherokee removal, the Moravians relocated with the tribe in what is now Oklahoma to establish New Springplace near the town of [[Oaks, Oklahoma]]. Sometime during the late 19th century, James B. Brackett donated the land upon which the Brackett Indian School was built.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.murraycountymuseum.com/mcs.html|title=Murray County Museum - MURRAY SCHOOLS|last=Museum|first=Murray County|website=www.murraycountymuseum.com|access-date=December 28, 2016}}</ref>  The school did not always function as a segregated Indian school. At one point in its previously integrated history it was referred to as the Lone Cherry School.<ref name=":0" />

The Brackets were a notable Eastern Cherokee family<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ancestrypaths.com/native-american/eastern-cherokee-applications-us-court-of-claims-1906-1909/|title=Ancestry Paths: Eastern Cherokee applications US Court of Claims 1906-1909|website=www.ancestrypaths.com|access-date=March 22, 2018}}</ref> that lived along Brackett's Ridges, amongst several other American Indian families, several of which were also Eastern Cherokee.<ref name=":1" />  Most of the Brackets were forced to leave Georgia during the Trail of Tears earlier in the 19th century; however, some of them returned to Georgia several years later.  James Brackett's brother Adam Brackett, along with several other siblings show up on the Dawes Rolls as being enrolled members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.okhistory.org/research/dawesresults.php?lname=Brack|title=Search the Dawes Final Rolls {{!}} OHS|website=www.okhistory.org|access-date=December 28, 2016}}</ref>