Andrew Ross House - Vestiges of the Trail of Tears in Alabana
Ft. Payne, AL

Andrew Ross House Image source: https://vacationsalabama.com/parks/national-parks/trail-of-tears-national-historic-trail/cherokee-leader-andrew-ross-home/

The home of Andrew Ross is located at 4502 Godfrey Avenue (near 45th Street NE), Ft. Payne, AL. The house retains intact portions of the original home built in 1821 by Cherokee Leader Andrew Ross and his wife, Susannah (Susan) Lowery Ross, who was the daughter of Assistant Principal Chief George Lowery.

Susannah Ross stated in a claim against the U.S. Government in 1834 that she and Andrew constructed the house in 1821. The claim states that the Ross property included a two-story dwelling constructed of hewn logs with a shingled roof, plank floors, a brick chimney with two fireplaces and a two-story, banistered piazza extending across the front.
,br> Other structures included a 24-foot-by- 12-foot framed addition to the house, a separate 16-foot-by-16-foot log kitchen, a large double stable, two smaller stables, a smoke house, hen house, milk house, corn cribs, spring house and multiple smaller cabins.In addition the property included stables, numerous outbuildings, farmlands, orchards and pastures. Andrew was a judge on the Cherokee Supreme Court. As a member of the Ridge Party, Andrew was in direct oppostion to his brother John's anti-removal stance.

Drawing of the Andrew Ross House Image source: The Cherokee Plantation, Fort Payne, Alabama by Royce Keershaw, Sr., 1970.

The home is privately owned. The owner, Olivia Cox is available for tours of Trail of Tears historic sites in Fort Payne, Ala. For more information, including directions for a self-guided Trail of Tears drive in Fort Payne, visit landmarksdekalbal.org/articles/TrailOfTearsDrive.html or call 256-845-6888.

Andrew Ross House Image source: https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2014/03/homestead-cherokee-plantation.html

Andrew Ross House Image source: https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2014/03/homestead-cherokee-plantation.html

SOURCE:
Adapted from https://www.landmarksdekalbal.org/preserving-dekalb-county-alabama-landmarks/andrew-ross-home/

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