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Hokes Bluff was established on a high bluff overlooking the Coosa River. The town was called "The Bluff", and was used as a lookout station by Native American tribes, as they could see a great distance across, up and down the Coosa River. Hokes Bluff was one of the staging areas where the Cherokee were collected, and sent to Gunter's Landing (Guntersville), and west to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.

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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Hokes Bluff is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Hokes Bluff has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Legion Park Bowl in Gadsden, 8 miles away.