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            Skitt Mountain straddles the Hall and White counties line between Cleveland and Clermont. It is exceptionally scenic this time of year, its dense hardwood slopes lighting up the landscape with seemingly every color of the rainbow. It’s as often called “Skitts” Mountain, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is the origin of the name because it comes from a Skitt family who were Cherokee Indians and among the first settlers of the land around the mountain. The Skitts were among a few hundred Cherokee that escaped the Trail of Tears, the removal to Oklahoma of thousands of Indians after the white man discovered gold in North Georgia. They hid behind the namesake 2,000-foot mountain and survived perhaps because they were small in number and unknown to federal troops rounding up fellow Cherokees from the gold country. Too, though picturesque, much of the land in the area is rough and hilly, and the government might not have considered it valuable enough, thus letting the small Indian settlement alone. Kenneth Savage is a descendant of the Skitts and is on a mission to tell their story and thereby uncover the history of the mountain and the area around it. He and his wife Jane, also of Indian heritage, last week were on another research trip to Oklahoma, where most of the Cherokee tribe ended up and established their own nation after the Trail of Tears. A June visit from Max White, a professor of anthropology at Piedmont College in Demorest and an expert in local history, was supposed to shed some light on the issue. But in some cases, more questions were raised. "It's not a temple mound; the temple mounds like the ones in Nacoochee Valley were usually square. My guess is that this is from the Hopewell culture, dating to the first 400 years after Christ," White said after arriving. "We don't know the function of it." According to White, the Hopewell people were spread across the nation and centered in Ohio. They traded with each other regularly, which explains how seashells found at Rogers Mound made it inland here and to primitive graves in the north. 
 Photo of Topp Scout taken on Bill Savage road.
   

Taken on: November 27, 2016

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