Sequatchie

The Sequatchie Valley is a long, narrow cleft in the Cumberland Plateau, remarkable for the straightness of its course. Steep escarpments rise on either side, with Walden Ridge separating the valley from the country to the east. The Sequatchie River flows southward along its floor to join the Tennessee. The lower valley lay within the Cherokee Nation until the treaty of 1817, when Cherokee leaders ceded it to the United States; the new county of Marion was established there later that year.