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190 years ago...
Friday, November 6, 2009
On February 27, 1819, a group of Cherokee Indians met with Secretary of War John C. Calhoun and signed a much negotiated land cession treaty. It became known as the Calhoun Treaty, and in the agreement the U. S. Federal Government bought from the Cherokee Indians all the land between Hiwassee, Little Tennessee and Big Tennessee Rivers lying west of Starr Mountain and the foothills of the Smokies. Quite suddenly, East Tennessee was opened for white settlement in what became known as the "Hiwassee Purchase."
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