December 5, 2012

On June 24, 1823, Acting Governor Robert Crittenden of Arkansas Territory met with a group of Arkansas Cherokee leaders at the home of Cherokee agent David Brearley on the south side of the Arkansas River in the vicinity of present-day Dardanelle (Yell County). It is believed that the resulting Treaty of Council Oaks, which ceded Cherokee rights to all land south of the Arkansas River, was signed under this tree.