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 The following images tell the story of the Robert Love Survey of 1820. Researchers affiliated with the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Program (DEB-9632854 & DEB-0218001) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia have been working with the records of the survey to learn about the early settlement and environmental history of Western North Carolina. A reproduction of the map produced during the survey is on permanent display at the Macon County Historical Museum, in Franklin, North Carolina. Many thanks to Ms. Barbara White and Mr. Bill Jurgelski for their contributions.
The Robert Love
Survey covered parts of what are today Macon, Jackson, Swain and
Transylvania Counties, in Western North Carolina. The lands covered
by the survey were obtained from the Cherokee Indians by the Treaty of
1819. |
