Brasstown Bald State Historical Marker

Brasstown Bald State Historical Marker

Located on the summit of Brasstown Bald, Towns County

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BRASSTOWN BALD

The Highest Point in Georgia - 4,784 ft.

The name is derived from the Cherokee word

ltse'yi (New Green Place) or (Place of Fresh

Green, from ltse'hi (green or unripe vegetation),

and yi, the locative. It occurs in several

places in the old Cherokee country, variously

spelled Echia, Echoee, Etchowee, and sometimes

"Brasstown," from a confusion of ltsc'yi with

Ontsaiyi (brass). One settlement known to the

whites as Brasstown was on upper Brasstown

Creek of Hiwassee River directly NW of this

point. The area near the Spring to the SW

was once an Indian camping ground.

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Photo: Ed Jackson

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