Presented by Wanda Patterson, “Spring Place & Oochgeelogy” tells the dramatic story of the Moravians, the first missionary group to be permitted to establish schools and mission stations in the Cherokee Nation. 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 Chatsworth and Calhoun, Georgia.

Wanda Patterson is a charter member of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. On behalf of the chapter, she edited a volume of poetry by Cherokee writer John Rollin Ridge, and she serves on the Trail of Tears Speakers Staff.

This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.