Native Americans in Giles County

Giles County was divided on paper by treaty before anyone surveyed it. The Chickasaw ceded a large tract in July 1805, and in January 1806 Dearborn's Treaty with the Cherokee relinquished their claims there; a September 1807 clarification added the waters of the Elk River. Even so, when Giles was formed in 1809 or 1810, most of it still lay inside the Chickasaw reservation, and it stayed there until the 1816 cession. Local tradition puts the 1806 congressional line along Pulaski's Sam Davis Avenue, though a county land study calls the early survey faulty.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Public Square and the Giles County Courthouse — 0.3 mi
  The 1909 courthouse and nineteenth-century storefronts on Pulaski's square, in the town where the Ku Klux Klan was founded and where the architect Moses McKissack III was born.
• James D. Vaughan Southern Gospel Music Museum — 18 mi
  A museum on the third floor of the Vaughan Municipal Building on the Lawrenceburg square, honoring the shape-note publisher who built a songbook, quartet and radio empire here from 1903.
• David Crockett State Park — 19 mi
  A Lawrenceburg park on Shoal Creek where Davy Crockett ran a gristmill, a powder mill and a distillery from 1817, and later broke with Andrew Jackson over Indian removal.
• Meriwether Lewis Site — 33 mi
  The place on the Natchez Trace Parkway where Meriwether Lewis died in October 1809, with his 1848 monument, a pioneer cemetery, a walk on the Old Trace and a free campground.

More markers nearby

• Walter Herschel Beech — 0.2 mi
• Donald Grady Davidson and John Crowe Ransom — 0.3 mi
• Martin College — 0.7 mi
• Fort Lilly — 0.7 mi