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Calhoun, TN - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Calhoun  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Calhoun Home page. The Calhoun Home page provides as much information as possible on Calhoun. Knowing Calhoun’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Calhoun’s Home page, you will also find Calhoun’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Calhoun has a population of 674. 46.4% of Calhoun’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.6 are female. 44.3% of Calhoun is married and 60% own their own home. The Average Home price is $95,309, and the average rent is $1,017. Household median income in Calhoun is $37,813, and the individual median income is $22,721. Calhoun’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.3%), Multiple(2.7%).


The area where Calhoun is located was settled by John Walker (c. 1770-1834), a part-Cherokee grandson of Nancy Ward and a prominent figure in the formation of McMinn County. Walker helped contract the Cherokee Turnpike Company in 1808 to maintain a road between Knoxville and Georgia. What is now Cahoun began around 1808, when Walker established a ferry across the Hiwassee River between the present locations of Calhoun and Charleston.


In 1819, Walker helped negotiate the Calhoun Treaty, where the Cherokee ceded the remaining lands between the Hiwassee River and the Little Tennessee River to the U.S. government. That same year McMinn County was organized at Walker's home in Calhoun. In 1820, Walker laid out the town of Calhoun, which he named for John C.


Calhoun, the Calhoun Treaty's chief U.S. negotiator. Walker's son, John "Jack" Walker Jr., would eventually be assassinated by two anti-removal Cherokees, who felt he had betrayed the Cherokee Nation. Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821, spent the last few years of his life in Calhoun, and is buried in the Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, which is located in Calhoun. In 1954, the pulp and paper giant Bowater (now Resolute Forest Products) established a plant in Calhoun that soon grew to become one of the largest newsprint mills in North America.


The mill, which dominates the western half of Calhoun, produces 750,000 metric tons of newsprint and specialty paper per year.There is one government building in the city which functions as the town's library, courthouse, police station, and fire station. Directly across the road from this building is a baseball field where Little League games are held. Calhoun had its own high school that shut down in 1980.


They had some very successful baseball teams. They also had basketball teams. Their cross river rivals were the Charleston panthers who also later closed their high school in 2001. On December 11, 1990, a heavy fog led to a crash involving 99 vehicles along Interstate 75 near Calhoun, killing 12 and injuring 42.


As a result, electronic speed limit signs equipped with fog sensors have been installed along the Calhoun section of the interstate.


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