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Carmel (Taloney) Mission Station
Carmel Mission State
Historical Marker
Carmel Mission State Historical
Marker, Pickens County, Ga.
(Text)
- SITE OF CARMEL (TALONEY)
- MISSION STATION
Just west of here in 1819 the American
Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions established a
mission station to the
Cherokee Indians. Moody Hall and Henry
Parker were the
first missionaries sent to Carmel (originally
known as Taloney).
March 12, 1831. Rev. Isaac Proctor,
then residing here, was
arrested by the Georgia Guard for not
complying with the mew
state law requiring all white men residing
on Cherokee land
now claimed by Georgia, to apply for
licenses to remain and take
an oath of allegiance to the State.
Many of the missionaries
abstained, feeling that Georgia had
no power to enforce her laws
over land rightfully belonging to the
Cherokees. Rev. Daniel
S. Butrick, also a missionary at Carmel,
away at the time,
escaped arrest. Rev. Proctor and the
other missionaries which were
arrested were released very shortly
on grounds that they were
agents of the U.S. Government in the
educating of the Cherokees.
Soon afterwards the issue again became
critical and, rather than
take the oath of allegiance, Butrick
and Proctor left Georgia.
Rev. Proctor remained in that portion
of the Cherokee Nation
now Tennessee and started a new mission.
Carmel continued
in existence until 1839.
112-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1962
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Photo: Ed Jackson
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
The University of Georgia
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