Cherokee Battlefield Preservation Corporation

It began with a spark, a dream.  When Robbie Hawthorne of Waleska, Georgia found four acres for sale in Cedar Bluff, Alabama, that dream became a reality. The land was the actual surrender site of US Colonel Abel D. Streight to CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest during the Civil War.  Robbie organized eight Civil War reenactor friends to build a battlepark and the Cherokee Battlefield Preservation Corporation was born.

Since the purchase of the surrender site in 2012, the sixty-acre Battlepark has grown into the reenactment it is now, offering visitors and reenactors an opportunity to step into 1863 and walk in the footsteps of the Confederate and Union soldiers where history was made – our history – all on the former Lawrence plantation in Cherokee County in Northeastern Alabama.

Plans are to grow the Battlepark into not only a reenactment telling the story of our past, but a place to educate our people about their history, our roots - free from outside influence, free to be truthful about our history.

Come be a part of us as we honor our ancestors and what they did on this land – our heritage.  We remember, lest we forget.

“Fidelis ad Historia, Fidelis ad Veritas”

(Faithful to history, Faithful to truth)