Cherokee County History Center Wins Awards History Cherokee won Special Projects #2 and #4 Awards at the Georgia Association of Museums conference in January. These awards were given for the History Center’s new exhibits and for the documentary, The Way It Was: Stories of Cherokee County's Desegregation, created in partnership with Scrapbook Video Productions.Harvee White, education manager; Thomas Paterson, development and communications coordinator; Stefanie Joyner, executive director; Kaylee Johnson, exhibits and collections manager