A Guide to the Images of the Bronze Map on the Lawn of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
78. Sequoyah: Creator of the Cherokee Syllabary
Wills Town, DeKalb County
In 1821, while living in Wills Town, Sequoyah created a system of writing the Cherokee language using symbols to
represent the sounds of syllables. Sequoyah was the son of a Cherokee mother and a white father, and he fought with
the Americans against the Creeks in the Battle of Horsehoe Bend.
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