Tallahassee Village 1E53
This was the uppermost of the Cherokee towns. It lay on both sides of the river near Tallassee Ford, in the valley below. The Cherokee abandoned the village following the Cherokee Treaty of 1819.

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Treaty of Dumplin Creek 1C5
About 4 miles south, at the mouth of the Dumplin Creek, stood Henry's Station, founded by Major Hugh Henry. Here, the State of Franklin, represented by John Sevier, and the Cherokee Nation, represented by Ancoo, chief of Chota, negotiated, on June 10, 1785, the treaty which opened for settlement a large area south of the French Broad and Holston Rivers.

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Fork of the River 1E4
5 miles south,Devereaux Gilliam founded a station where they Branch Broad and Holston Rivers meet, on an aboriginal mound, site of a Cherokee hunting camp. The stone house built by Colonel Francis A. Ramsey in 1797 still stands nearby. Mecklenburg, where his son, Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey wrote the Annals of Tennessee, was also here.

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City of Arlington TX2013

The City of Arlington developed along the juncture of two distinct ecological regions, the Blackland Prairie and the Eastern Cross Timbers. The West Fork of the Trinity River and its area tributaries flow through the city, and one such stream, Village (Caddo) Creek was the site of a series of Native American Communities.

The 1841 Battle of Village Creek and the 1843 Bird's Fort Treaty between the Republic of Texas and the Delaware, Chickasaw, Waco, Tawakoni, Keechi, Caddo, Nadako, Ionie, Biloxi and Cherokee tribes opened the region to pioneer settlement, led by Col. Middleton Tate Johnson and Patrick Watson. In 1876, the Rev. A.S. Hayter helped survey the area for a new townsite and rail stop for the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Named Arlington for the Virginia home fo Gen. Robert E. Lee, the town became a regional cotton distribution center. Incorporation occurred in 1884, the year after its first newspaper, The World, was first published. At the turn of the 20th Century, the city's more than 1,000 residents supported several churches and schools, including Arlington College, an institution that became the University of Texas at Arlington in 1967.

Arlington residents adopted a City Manager for of government in 1949. The municipality, situated between Fort Worth and Dallas, served as an interurban rail hub and as a stop along the Bankhead Highway. It became a statewide destination for amusements beginning in the 1920s with gambling at Top O' Hill Terrace and horseracing at W.T. Waggoner's Arlington Downs. Later attractions included Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, established in 1961, and the Texas Rangers baseball team. Today, Arlington remains a viable part of one fo the Nation's largest metropolitan areas.

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Jesse Chisholm TX2011
Founder of World-Famous Cattle Trail
Jesse Chisholm
1805-1868

Represented the Republic of Texas and President Sam Houston in many negotiations with Indians. Half Scotsman, half Cherokee, a scout, hunter, trader and trailblazer. Spoke 40 Indian languages and dialects and was a respected influence among southwestern tribes, including the wild Kiowas and Comanches.

In 1843, near here at Bird's Fort on the Trinity, was interpreter for a peace conference; in 1849 was in negotiations at Grapevine Springs, to the north.

He is best known for marking the Chisholm Trail across Oklahoma and Kansas. Cowboys driving cattle north to seek favorable markets used his direct route which avoided deep rivers and lay in grassy, watered land. He thus helped rebuild Texas Economy that had been wrecked in 1861-1865 by Civil War. Cattle had increased greatly in wartime. Texas had no market. Drives were necessary so $5 longhorns could go to northern markets to bring $30 or more per head. In 1867 the Chisholm Trail was extended to Abilene, Kansas, where cattle loading pens and railroad shipping cars were provided.

This was the best known of several cattle trails from Texas over which some 10,000,000 Beeves were driven from the state during the years 1866-1884.

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Rockwood Oak 1F19
Here, in the late 18th century, the Cherokee had a tollgate, where they exacted tribute from travelers between the Watauga Settlements and the Cumberland country. Here James Glasgow, John Hackett, and Littlepage Sims arranged with Talootiske, of the Cherokee, for the lines of the Indian Reservation and the boundaries of the town of Rockwood. The tree blew down in 1925.

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Capitol for a Day 1F25
On Sept. 21, 1807, the State Legislature met on this site, and immediately resolved to "adjourn forthwith from Kingston," to meet in Knoxville on the 23rd. This brief meeting was in technical fulfillment of terms in a treaty with the Cherokees by which the Indians relinquished the site of Southwest Point, ostensibly for locating the capitol at Kingston.

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Cavett's Station 1E31
About 1/2 mile north was this early fortified settlement. Here on Sept. 25, 1793, Alexander Cavett and 12 other settlers were massacred by a Cherokee war party under Doublehead, one of the more savage chiefs of the tribe.

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Cherokee Heights 1E71
Cherokee Heights, across the river, was seized by Gen. James Longstreet, CSA., Nov. 23, 1863, in order to bombard the Federal Fort Sanders, 2400 yards to the north. The fire was not effective due to quality of powder and extreme range.

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Treaty of the Holston 1E33
250 yards east, near the mouth of First Creek, William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, on July 2, 1791, signed a treaty with 41 chiefs of the Cherokee. It ceded a tract of land east of Clinch River extending approximately from Greeneville, 80 miles southwest and included the present Knox County.

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