Treaty of the Holston
250 yards east, near the mouth of First Creek, William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, on July 2, 1791, signed a treaty with 48 chiefs of the Cherokee. It ceded a tract of land east of Clinch River extending approximately from Greeneville, 80 miles southwest and included the present Knox County.
Marker is on West Main Street west of South Gay Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
