Clay County

This was wild country in the second and third decade of the nineteenth century, abounding with dangers arising from sheer loneliness, from wild animals, and rough terrain, to say nothing of the fact that unfriendly Indians roamed across the length and breadth of the land.  It would be impossible to document this episode, but it seems that no one has contested the distinction awarded to Mr. Moore.
    The first emigrants moved into this section, which at the time was a part of Macon County, in the early part of the 1830s with only the protection they could afford for themselves.
   In 1837 General Winfield Scott was commissioned to "round up" all the Indians throughout this mountain regions, detain them in improvised stockades and take them to the Oklahoma Territory, which had been set apart by the United States Government as an Indian Reservation.

For more history on Clay County visit their Chamber of Commerce Site.

Campgrounds and cottage rentals with websites are underlined use your back button to return to us.