Presented by Wanda Patterson, “Spring Place & Oochgeelogy” tells the dramatic story of the first missionary group to be permitted to establish schools and mission stations in the Cherokee Nation–the Moravians. The lecture will focus on the origins and development of Moravian missionary activity in the Cherokee Nation, highlighting the patterns of cross-cultural exchange between Moravian missionaries and the Cherokee at the Spring Place and Oochgeelogy mission stations in present-day Chatworth and Calhoun, GA.