In 1819, as Governor Joseph McMinn was serving his third term, the treaty of 1819, or The Hiwassee Purchase, was negotiated in...

County's Namesake - Joseph McMinn Born to Quaker parents June 22, 1758 in Pennsylvania, Joseph McMinn at age sixteen took refuge from the...

Three relatively "recent" Indian cultures preceded that of the present white people of European descent inhabiting the land which in 1819...