Calhoun’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Calhoun. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area where Calhoun is located was settled by John Walker (c. 1770-1834), a part-Cherokee grandson of Nancy Ward and a prominent figure in the formation of McMinn County. Walker helped contract the Cherokee Turnpike Company in 1808 to maintain a road between Knoxville and Georgia. What is now Calhoun began around 1808, when Walker established a ferry across the Hiwassee River between the present locations of Calhoun and Charleston. In 1819, Walker helped negotiate the Calhoun Treaty, where the Cherokee ceded the remaining lands between the Hiwassee River and the Little Tennessee River to the U.S. government. That same year McMinn County was organized at Walker's home in Calhoun. In 1820, Walker laid out the town of Calhoun, which he named for John C. Calhoun, the Calhoun Treaty's chief U.S. negotiator. Walker's son, John "Jack" Walker Jr., would eventually be assassinated by two anti…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Calhoun’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Calhoun’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewView of town, 1939: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Calhoun
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Calhoun, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Calhoun is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Calhoun has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Cleveland to Charleston Concrete Highway in Charleston, 1.1 miles away.
Calhoun and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as View of town (1939) and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.