Tennessee § 4-2-102 - Commissioners' North Carolina boundary.

§ 4-2-102. Commissioners' North Carolina boundary.

The boundary line between this state and the state of North Carolina, as run by commissioners appointed for the purpose of running and marking the same, begins at a stone set up on the north side of Cataloochee Turnpike Road, and marked on the west side, “Ten., 1821,” and on the east side, “N.C., 1821”; running thence in a southwestwardly course to the Bald Rock, on the summit of the Great Iron or Smoky Mountain, and continuing southwestwardly on the extreme height thereof to where it strikes Tennessee River, about seven (7) miles above the old Indian town of Tallassee, crossing Porter's Gap at the distance of twenty-two (22) miles from the beginning, passing Meigs' boundary line at thirty-one and one half (31 ½) miles, the Equovettly path at fifty-three (53) miles and crossing Tennessee River at the distance of sixty-five (65) miles from the beginning; from Tennessee River to the main ridge, and along the extreme height of the same to the place where it is called Unicoi or Unaka Mountain, striking the old trading path leading from the Valley Towns to the Overhills Towns, near the head of the west fork of Tellico River, and at the distance of ninety-three (93) miles from the beginning; thence along the extreme height of Unicoi or Unaka Mountain to the southwest end thereof, at the Unicoi or Unaka Turnpike Road, where a cornerstone is set up, marked “Ten.” on the west side and “N.C.” on the east side, and where a hickory tree is also marked on the south side, “Ten. 101 M.,” and on the north side, “N.C. 101 M.,” being one hundred one (101) miles from the beginning; from thence a due course south two (2) miles and two hundred fifty-two (252) poles to a spruce pine on the north bank of the Hiwassee River below the mouth of Cane Creek; thence up that river the same course about one (1) mile, and crossing the same to a maple, marked “W.D.” and “R.A.,” on the south bank of the river; thence continuing the same course due south eleven (11) miles and two hundred seventy-three (273) poles to the southern boundary of the states of Tennessee and North Carolina, making in all one hundred sixteen (116) miles and two hundred twenty-three (223) poles from the beginning, and striking the southern boundary line twenty-three (23) poles west of a tree in that line, marked “72 M.,” where was set up by the commissioners a square post, marked on the west side “Ten., 1821,” and on the east side, “N.C., 1821,” and on the south, “G.” Code 1858, § 61 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 35); Shan., § 72; Code 1932, § 83; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 4-202. Compiler's Notes. The North Carolina commissioners in 1799 began at the Virginia line and ran the boundary line to the top of a high pinnacle of the Smoky Mountain beyond the French Broad River, where they stopped. The joint commissioners of North Carolina and Tennessee in 1821 began at the termination of the line run by the North Carolina commissioners and surveyed to the Georgia line. See McCarty v. Carolina Lumber Co., 134 Tenn. 35, 182 S.W. 909, 1915 Tenn. LEXIS 146 (1915). Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 5 Tenn. Juris., Boundaries, § 1; 22 Tenn. Juris., State, § 4.