Sequoyah is one of the most important Tennesseans to have ever lived. But no matter what book you read, video you watch or website you click on, you'll find a different account of his life. That is ...

As far as Joe Byrd was concerned, the little building and the parcel of land on which it stood had long been a home away from home. “I remember coming here as a kid, on our end of the school year ...

VONORE, Tenn. (WATE) — A museum in Vonore strives to promote the understanding and appreciation of the history of the Cherokee people. The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum tells the story of George Gist, ...

VONORE — Charlie Rhodarmer fondly remembers listening as a kid to recorded Cherokee stories in the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in North Carolina. Eventually, the wooden boxes holding those ...

Sequoyah single-handedly gave the Cherokee Indians a system of reading and writing. His wife, Sally, gave him grief for all the work it took. Early on, before Sequoyah invented 85 characters to ...

When Kim Smith looks out across the sunlit shoreline of Sequoyah Park, she envisions how it might have looked 1,000 years ago, when the river was a highway for her ancestors and when the mound behind ...

Ben Hogan's 1-iron looms over this year's U.S. Open like some sort of holy relic. Most every golfer knows the story, authored in 1950 and immortalized in one of the sport's great photos. The image ...

Sequoyah is making history with a game-changing investment to its athletic facilities. Via a video published Feb. 22 on its Facebook page, the school announced the installation of synthetic turf on ...

It has been 75 years since the Sequoyah Elementary School facility was built with its original eight classrooms. Today, with 32 classrooms and offices, the 393 pre-kindergarten to fifth-grade students ...