Chatata

Chatata lies near Holly Springs in the northern Mississippi hills, a region long occupied by the Chickasaw. Under the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832, Chickasaw land east of the Mississippi was to be surveyed and sold, with its people seeking a new homeland to the west. European-American settlers founded Holly Springs in 1836 as settlement expanded into the ceded country. Individual Chickasaw families were promised temporary homes pending removal.