The Henegar House

Before he was a Unionist householder, Henry Benton Henegar went west with the Cherokee. During the removal he served Principal Chief John Ross as wagonmaster and secretary, and he traveled the route with the people forced from this valley before coming back to Charleston. The house he and Margaret built on the old Fort Cass ground is the oldest surviving brick building in Bradley County. It was listed on the National Register in 1976 and is a site on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. It is a private home, seen from the street.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cherokee Trail of Tears State Park — 17 mi
  The Blythe Ferry landing at the mouth of the Hiwassee, where Cherokee and Muscogee people camped in 1838 to cross the Tennessee River, made a state park in June 2026.
• Rhea County Courthouse — 20 mi
  The 1891 Dayton courthouse where John T. Scopes was tried in July 1925 for teaching evolution, with the second-floor courtroom restored and a trial museum in the basement.
• Ocoee Whitewater Center — 22 mi
  The Forest Service site on the Ocoee River in Cherokee National Forest that hosted the 1996 Olympic canoe slalom, on a river that TVA dams and releases by schedule.
• Red Clay State Historic Park — 23 mi
  The last seat of the Cherokee Nation before removal, where eleven general councils met from 1832 to 1837, now a state park with a council house replica, a sacred spring and an eternal flame.

More markers nearby

• Charleston on the Hiwassee — 0.3 mi
• Nancy Ward — 9.5 mi
• Civil War in Polk County — 9.7 mi
• Masonic Female Institute — 11 mi