Attention private plane owners! Land your plane on a real Cherokee cemetery.

Experience history at its best. Macon County invites you to land your private jet at our new Andy Jackson Airport and try out our new Gen. George Armstrong Custer Cherokee Landing Strip, located square on top of historic Iotla Cherokee Cemetery. Enjoy the thrill of landing on 50 generations of deceased Indians who lived here for over 2,000 years.

In 1869, Yankee Gen. Philip Sheridan said, “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.” Capitalizing on this Yankee ingenuity, Macon County is living up to that axiom by extending our runway across the old Cherokee graveyard.

“This is exciting. Our airport and runway is built dead center on several Indian villages. We don’t know exactly how many dead Cherokees are under there, but we know this makes our airport unique, kind of like celebrating Halloween every day,” crowed Miles Standish, the Andy Jackson Cherokee Airstrip’s chief officer.

“We’re gonna have us a ‘Public Cherokee Airstrip Cemetery Day’ out here at the Andy Jackson Airport,” said Harold Cobalt, head of the Macon Airport Ethics Committee. “We want all our school kids to come out and see what we have done. As future citizens of Macon County, this is their legacy and heritage. I only wish we had claimed the Jackson County name before Jackson County thought of it. We stole this land fair and square from those Indians, cemeteries and all, and it’s our private property rights to do anything we want with them. Pave, baby, Pave!”

So, fly those Lear Jets and crop dusters right on in here and don’t be superstitious! The ghosts of dead Indians can’t jinx your flights or your landings. Just ask Andy Jackson and George Custer.

Lamar Marshall, Franklin