Treaty of Hopewell
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Three agreements, each known as a Treaty of Hopewell, were signed between representatives of the Congress of the United States and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw peoples. They were negotiated an
U.S. Representative Andrew Pickens, owner of Hopewell on the Keowee
State of Franklin
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The State of Franklin was an unrecognized state located in present-day East Tennessee, in the United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains t
Treaty of Hopewell
…the town of Chickamauga itself and one from Lookout Mountain Town. The Cherokee complained at the treaty that some 3,000 white settlers of the de facto State of Franklin were already squatting on the Cherokee side of the agreed line, between the Holston and French Broad Rivers, and they continued to dispute that region…
Replica of the Capitol of the State of Franklin in Greeneville, Tennessee