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Cherokee Boundary

December 28, 2025

When a final boundary was set between the Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma, and the Arkansas Territory, that portion of the boundary from Fort Smith north to the Missouri border was referred to as the Cherokee Boundary and later as the Cherokee Line. The boundary south of Fort Smith was referred to as the Choctaw Boundary.

Tanner, 1825

July 1, 2009

Three years before Fayetteville was founded, Henry Tanner produced A New American Atlas in 1825 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The atlas included 32 maps covering most of America as it existed at that point. The above portion is from the second edition of the map of North America. Present-day northwest Arkansas was still held by the … More Tanner, 1825