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County's Namesake - Joseph McMinn
In 1819, as Governor Joseph McMinn was serving his third term, the treaty of 1819, or The Hiwassee Purchase, was negotiated in...
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Joseph McMinn 1758-1824
County's Namesake - Joseph McMinn Born to Quaker parents June 22, 1758 in Pennsylvania, Joseph McMinn at age sixteen took refuge from the...
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Native Background of this Area
Three relatively "recent" Indian cultures preceded that of the present white people of European descent inhabiting the land which in 1819...
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