Living history is now just a click away as Cherokee Nation’s Cultural Tourism Department launches its new website functionality features with the ability to book tours online, research Cherokee Nation history and visit notable locations all at www.CherokeeTourismOK.com.
Currently four tours are available to purchase including the Cherokee History Tour, Cherokee Old Settler Tour, Civil War History Tour and Will Rogers History Tour. Each tour is $35 per person and includes lunch. A highlight of the four tours now available online for booking along with full details consist of:
• Cherokee History Tour begins at the Cherokee Heritage Center and Museum, which houses the Trail of Tears exhibit; an interpretive Ancient Village showing everyday Cherokee life pre-contact with Europeans; and Adam’s Corner Rural Village, which illustrates the look and feel of the small communities that sprang up post removal.
Guests will visit the Murrell Home, the only antebellum plantation home left in Oklahoma with an interpretative guide in period dress to share the home’s history.
Visitors will also experience a living example of the town once considered the “Athens of the West” while touring historic properties including the National Capitol Building, Supreme Court Building and Prison, all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Home to these landmarks, guests will learn how the town of Tahlequah came to be the capital of the great Cherokee Nation.
To finish, visitors
