Map of Cumberland & Franklin, as refered to in Ramsey’s Annals of Tennessee (Ramsey, 1853)

J. G. M. Ramsey’s map of the Cumberland settlements and the State of Franklin, engraved by W. Keenan of Charleston for The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1853): Tennessee from the Mississippi to the Unaka and Smoky mountains, with the edges of Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, as it was in the 1780s and 1790s — the counties of the Cumberland district and of the short-lived State of Franklin, the towns and stations, and the routes of the time. Ramsey letters the “Great Indian War Path” — the Great Indian Warpath, the north–south route through the Valley used by the Cherokee, Shawnee, Haudenosaunee and others — from Chickamauga past the Hiwassee and the mouth of the Tellico to Maryville, and over the French Broad and the Holston to the Long Island of the Holston. He marks the Chickamauga Cherokee towns on the Tennessee below Lookout Mountain (Chickamauga, Crow Town, Nickajack, the Island Towns and Running Water) and letters “Chickasaws” across West Tennessee. Robertson’s route to the Cumberland, the route of the 1794 expedition to Nickajack and an “Army Route” south to the Tennessee at Tuscumbia are drawn too. The title, and a dark printing flaw over the Tennessee River at the Mississippi line, are not shown.

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