This area was within the reservation of the Cherokee Nation.Ī post office opened at Webbers Falls in 1856. At his direction, slaves built a house here that was a replica of his former antebellum mansion in Georgia, the Chief Vann House. He settled nearby and established a plantation, where he worked some of his more than 200 slaves he brought with him. Joseph Vann, a/k/a "Rich Joe" Vann, was among the thousands of Cherokee emigrants forced from Georgia during Indian Removal. According to the Webbers Falls Historical Museum, this is the second-oldest town in the former Indian Territory. In the late 1830s and 1840, the mass of thousands of Cherokee from the Southeast were forcibly moved into Indian Territory as a result of the US policy of Indian Removal. They finally agreed that year, in exchange for an increased amount of land and annuities. The Western Cherokee resisted sharing their territory with immigrants to be resettled from the Southeast, as the US government proposed in 1834. Webber was among the early leaders of the Cherokee in this area, one of their representatives when meeting with US agents and going to Washington, DC for meetings. In the early years when Webber was in the territory, there was considerable conflict with the Osage people, who were forced by the United States government to give up some of their territory to the Cherokee, in a Treaty of 1828. Webber also built a salt works, leasing the land for the latter from the Cherokee government, which held it communally as a tribe. When English-speaking visitors came, one of their African-American slaves and domestic servants would translate. They had adopted many American ways and outfitted their house in European-American style. Of mixed-race Cherokee-European descent, Webber was married to a full-blood Cherokee. Having acquired a small fleet of keelboats, he was able to stock the post with goods from other parts of the United States, so he opened a trading post and a portage service, as well as building a house. Spanning eight states Interstate 40 is a major cross country freeway connecting the Desert Southwest with the Southeastern United States.Webber had settled here with some of the first Cherokee to go to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River it was then considered part of Arkansas Territory. Starting in Barstow, California, the freeway generally follows the alignment of Historic U.S. 66 across the Mojave Desert into the high desert. Spanning the Colorado River west of Kingman, I-40 gains elevation on a course south of the Grand Canyon to the city of Flagstaff. Advancing east across New Mexico, the freeway spans the width of the state, converging with Interstate 25 in Albuquerque.Ĭontinuing to Amarillo, Interstate 40 transitions into the Great Plains in eastern New Mexico, leading into the Texas Panhandle. 66 at Oklahoma City, remaining generally eastward while U.S. Entering Arkansas, Interstate 40 trends southeast from Fort Smith along the Oklahoma state line to Little Rock. 70 east from the capital city to West Memphis. A short concurrency with I-55 precedes the Hernando DeSoto Bridge taking I-40 across the Mississippi River. Through Memphis, I-40 follows the northern arc of the inner beltway the southern half is I-240. The original planned alignment took I-40 across the city, using Sam Cooper Boulevard, a partially completed freeway/boulevard spur from the east toward Overton Park. Leaving Memphis, I-40 heads to Jackson and then Nashville, where it briefly overlaps with both I-65 and I-24. I-40 joins Nashville with Knoxville, overlapping with I-75 along an eight to ten lane freeway leading into the metropolitan area from Farragut.Ĭontraflow plans for Interstate 40, where all lanes of the freeway are switched to one-way traffic leading away from the coast, arose in 2003 during the threat of Hurricane Isabel, which packed 160 mile per hour winds at one point. Under the plan, North Carolina officials would convert 90 miles of I-40, from Wilmington north to I-95, so that all lanes accommodated westbound traffic during the evacuation phase of a major hurricane threat. The configuration will end several hours before the arrival of Gale Force or higher winds from the threatening storm. A maximum 12 hour window will be implemented for contraflow, so that emergency vehicles and other traffic needing to travel toward the coast can do so. 5Ĭontraflow was first implemented nationally in August 1999 when Hurricane Floyd threatened the Eastern Seaboard. 5 Interstate 16 leading west from Savannah, Georgia was switched to one-way traffic to aid in what was considered the largest peace time evacuation in U.S.
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