Editing Madisonville, Tennessee (section)

==History==
The City of Madisonville originally began as the town of Tellico, and prior to that a [[Cherokee]] village of the same name. The Calhoun Treaty and resulting Hiwassee Purchase of 1819 opened the area for white settlement. Madisonville was founded in the early 1820s as a county seat for [[Monroe County, Tennessee|Monroe County]], which had been formed in 1819. The town was initially known as "Tellico," but its name was changed to "Madisonville" in 1830 in honor of U.S. President [[James Madison]] in accordance with a petition from the residents presented by state representative James Madison Greenway.<ref>"[http://www.tngennet.org/monroe/hist.htm History of Madisonville]."  TNGenNet.org. Retrieved: December 29, 2007.</ref> Madisonville was incorporated on May 16, 1850.