About 1812, William Doak established his stand or tavern on the Natchez Trace five miles north of this point. The Treaty of Doaks Stand was signed there in 1820. Because he conducted himself respectfully toward those who called at his house and made considerable improvement on the land, Doak was given sole right to purchase his land after it was opened for settlement. When the Robinson Road took traffic from the Natchez Trace, the stand was moved to the crossing of the Choctaw Boundary and the new road about a half a mile north of here. A line of trees crossing the Parkway marks a section of the boundary accepted by the Choctaw Indians and an American commission under Andrew Jackson in the Treaty of Doaks Stand on October 20, 1820, and this point lies on the Choctaw side of that boundary. In that treaty, the Choctaws reluctantly gave to the United States the land west of the line from White Oak Spring on the old Indian Path northward to a black oak standing on the Natchez Road about forty poles eastward from Doak’s fence, marked A.J. and blazed. The area surrendered by the Choctaw Nation amounted to some five and a half million acres, about one third of their land. Ten years later, in 1830, the Choctaw were forced to give up all their lands, and by 1834 other Indians were forced to do the same, clearing for white settlement all areas of the three states crossed by the Natchez Trace.