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=== Quanassee === This was long an area of indigenous settlement along the [[Hiwassee River]]. An earthwork [[platform mound]] was built here, likely by people of the [[South Appalachian Mississippian culture]] about 1000 CE. It would have been the center of their village. Later, the historic [[Cherokee]] developed a town known as ''Quanassee'' at this site. They built their [[townhouse]] on top of the mound, to provide a place for communal discussion and reaching consensus. It was one of the numerous "Valley Towns" located along the Hiwassee River in [[Western North Carolina]]. It was also along the [[Trading Path]] (also called the "[[Unicoi Turnpike]]"). That road led from Quanassee west to another town at present-day [[Murphy, North Carolina]], then over the [[Unicoi Range]] at Unicoi Gap and down to the Cherokee town of [[Great Tellico]] (today [[Tellico Plains, Tennessee]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Riggs |first=Brett H. |title=Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook |last2=Duncan |first2=Barbara R. |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-8078-5457-3 |location=Chapel Hill |page=245}}</ref> Quanassee had several hundred inhabitants by 1550. In 1716, [[South Carolina]] officials met with Cherokee leaders in Quanassee to obtain the Cherokee's alliance in the [[Yamasee War|Yamassee War]]. The next year South Carolina built a trading site in Quanassee to gain Cherokee commodities like deerskins in exchange for manufactured English goods. A Coosa (Creek) war party "cut off" Quanassee in 1725, demolishing the village and enslaving or killing most of its residents. The town was briefly reestablished before the American Revolution; [[Rutherford Light Horse expedition|Rutherford expedition]] forces camped there in 1776. In the 1820s, [[Baptists in the United States|Baptist]] missionaries visited Quanassee to preach to families living there.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |title=Quanassee Town and the Spikebuck Mound Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=41949 |access-date=April 13, 2024 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}}</ref>
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