Old Agency

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Old Agency

TN 58, north end of bridge over Hiwassee River, TN , USA

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About 1 mile east, at the mouth of Agency Creek, the U.S. Agency for the Cherokees was located from 1816 to 1821. Here, on July 8, 1817, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, Governor Joseph McMinn, and David Meriwether, U.S. Commissioners concluded a treaty with the Cherokee Nation, in which ?important land cessions? were made.

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