Quanasee

Quanassee was a Cherokee Valley Town on the Hiwassee River, amid the wooded mountains of the southern Appalachians. Fields of maize, beans and squash surrounded the settlement, and a path through the valley linked it with other Cherokee towns and traders from Carolina. The town appeared on a colonial map in 1725. By 1797, when Benjamin Hawkins passed through, the houses had gone and the former fields remained on the river flats.