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Cherokee Rose - Sweet, favorite, fragrance of white roses.

Our Cherokee Rose Candle proceeds are donated to charity in our community.

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Indian Legend of the Cherokee Rose

When the Journey started in the Winter of 1838,
the Cherokee people were forcibly removed
from their homes in the Southeastern United States,
and crossed some 1,200 miles to territories west of the Mississippi. One fourth of them died on the journey west. The Cherokee were driven from their homelands in North Carolina and Georgia when gold was discovered in their lands.

Because of its hardship, the journey came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

Legend tells that during the journey, Cherokee elders
asked the Creator to give the women the strength to continue. The mothers of the Cherokee were grieving and crying so much, they were unable to help their children survive the journey. The elders prayed for a sign that would lift the mother’s spirits to give them strength.

The Creator answered, telling them that wherever
a mother shed a tear, a beautiful white flower would grow.
The next morning, a beautiful rose began to grow where each of the mother’s tears fell. The women looked back to see the trail filled with the white flowers.
The Creator had promised and produced and they found the strength to continue.

The rose is white for their tears; a gold center represents the gold taken from Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each stem for the seven Cherokee clans. The wild Cherokee Rose grows along the route of the Trail of Tears into eastern Oklahoma today.
To this day, the Cherokee Rose prospers along the route of the "Trail of Tears".
The Cherokee Rose is now the official flower of the State of Georgia.

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The Trail of Tears, via the maps above show the end of the trail at Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Tahlequah is 20 miles from Fort Gibson and our area of the state is very rich in heritage and rememberances of our ancestors.

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