BRADLEY COUNTY

A replica of the council house at Red Clay
County Seat: Cleveland
There's a lot of Cherokee history here. In 1832, stripped of their rights in the state of Georgia, members of the tribe moved their seat of government from New Echota in northwest Georgia to Red Clay, in Bradley County. But Red Clay would not be the Cherokee capital for long. Only six years later the tribe would be sent west on a journey we now know as the Trail of Tears.

Click here for a virtual tour of the Red Clay State Historic Park.
The parade welcoming Paul Huff home
PHOTO: Museum Center Five Points
Bradley County was also the home of Paul Huff, one of Tennessee's seven Congressional Medal of Honor winners from World War II. According to his citation, Huff was in Italy when he advanced alone in the face of heavy fire to determine the strength and location of the enemy. As a result of information he gained, an American patrol routed 125 German soldiers a few minutes later.

Here's a picture of the Bradley County Courthouse.

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