In May 1777, a delegation of roughly 600 Cherokee and representatives from South Carolina and Georgia met near this spot to negotiate an end to fighting in the Second Cherokee War of 1776-1777. On May 20, 1777, they signed the Treaty of DeWitt's Corner, ending hostilities, providing for the return of prisoners, and requiring large land concessions by the Lower Cherokee. The ceded territory included present-day Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, and Pickens Counties. This warfare formed part of the revolutionary struggle between Anderson patriots and their British and loyalist opponents, in which the powerful Native American nations of the Southeast played an important role and most sided with the British.