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Drawing the line

Issue: 
July 2010

How a Revolutionary War hero and an Irish surveyor laid a boundary between the land of the Cherokee and white settlers

Three triangular blazes in a tree along Meigs Line. Photograph courtesy of Grateful Steps, INC.
Colonel Return J. Meigs, Sr. Photographs courtesy of the library of Congress
Great Smokies Park Ranger Joe Kelley at Meigs Post in Tennessee in July 1970. Photograph courtesy of Grateful steps, inc.
A plaque denotes a poplar boundary tree in Cherokee. Photograph courtesy of Grateful Steps, INC.