"Treaty of Wataga" (concluded near Fort Wataga, Tenn. in 1775). The Cherokee Indians, through their chief Oconostoto, selling to Daniel Boone for the Transylvania Company the lands that they claimed in Kentucky for –10.000– (about $48,600). The Indians claimed the territory extending from the Cumberland Mtns. On the east to the Kentucky River on the west, and from the Ohio River south. The Transylvania Company was a corporation composed of North Carolina capitalists, headed by Col. Richard Henderson. The Virginia assembly refused to approve it but gave them 200,000 acres of land in western Ky. In place of it. Western lunette of the State Capitol in Frankfort. 1909 (Date of Original Work)
This image is from the C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection, 1900–1954, bulk 1920–1940, located at the Kentucky Historical Society. The creator is T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert) White (1877–1939), and the photographer is C. Frank Dunn (1883–1954). The photograph was digitized in 2003.