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In 1840 Charles Barrier was living on the south side of the Tennessee River in Jackson Co, AL in the Yucca and South Coon area. This was at the base of Sand Mountain.... the area between the mountain and the River being no more than a mile wide strip of land at the widest. This was Cherokee land until the Treaty of 1836 at which time it was open to white settlement. The Cherokees did not leave until 1838 and left behind their improvements .... their houses, fields, orchards, outbuildings and the Cherokees were paid for the improvements by the U.S. Government. Whites could move into any of these improvements and claim them. But the land was not available for sale until 1842. So, the story that Charles Barrier left Sand Mountain could be considered to be true although technically he did not live on Sand Mountain but at the foot of the mountain.
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