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Ocona Lufta Valley. Councilman Wesley Crow, at Home. Bird Town School House. `Chapel Oak,' Bird Town, Cherokee Nation, N.C.

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  • This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, 'Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina' (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows 'Ocona Lufta Valley' (upper left), 'Councilman Wesley Crow, at Home' (upper right), 'Bird Town School House' (lower left), and '`Chapel Oak.' Bird Town, Cherokee Nation, N.C.' (lower right). The spelling of 'Ocona Lufta' is now generally given as Oconaluftee. The Oconalfutee River enters the Tuckasegee River near Ela, N.C.