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AREA MAPS
Indian Treaty Map, northern East Tennessee
1834 Map, before Union Co. was Formed
1839 Postal Route Map, before Union Co. was Formed
1865 Map, Union County
1888 Rand McNally Map, Union Co. and Part of Knox Co.
Modern USGS Union Co. and Surrounds.
United States Digital Maps Library
INDIAN TREATY MAP
(Detail)
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Long before the colonists pushed their way into eastern Tennessee, that area was
Cherokee country. Relentless pressure was brought against the Cherokee. After the
Revolutionary War, the new federal government tried to control the “intruders”
who entered illegally on Cherokee land. The federal government would treat with the Cherokee
and would obtain vast tract after vast tract of land.
That eastern Tennessee land (and more) was claimed by the Colony of North Carolina,
then the State of North Carolina, United States Territory South of the River Ohio (1790-1796)
and finally the Great State of Tennessee (1796).
There were two U.S. / Cherokee treaties, made in 1791 and 1798, that include the area
that became Union County in 1854. Among other things, these treaties made the “intruders”
legal.
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 8. Cherokee,
Treaty of Holston, 2 Jul 1791 (Tennesee and North Carolina)
42.
Cherokee, Treaty of Tellico, 2 Oct 1798
(Tennessee and North Carolina)
1834 MAP BEFORE UNION COUNTY TENNESSEE WAS ERECTED
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This small detail clip from Henry Schenck Tanner’s 1834 U. S. Map shows how the
counties adjoined before Union County was erected (1854). In the center of the map, you see where Powells
River and Clinch River join. Directly to the east would become Union County, twenty years after the map was made.
1839 POSTAL ROUTE MAP
BEFORE UNION COUNTY TENNESSEE WAS ERECTED
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1865 UNION COUNTY AREA MAP
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Mountain region of North Carolina and Tennessee, compiled by W. L. Nicholson & A.
Lindenkohl, with corrections to January 1865. Drawn by
A. Lindenkohl. H. Lindenkohl & Chas. G. Krebs, lith.
CREATED/PUBLISHED, U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supt., [1865]
Source: Library of Congress Geography and
Map Division Washington.
1888 MAP of UNION COUNTY TENNESSEE
(Detail)
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UNION COUNTY TENNESSEE INCLUDING NORRIS DAM
(Detail section from a modern USGS map)
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