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Williams' Island, named for a pioneer occupant, was the site of an Indian village and probably of an eighteenth-century French trading post. Here, on May 31, 1862, James J. Andrews, leader of the Andrews Raid, was captured following his escape from jail in Chattanooga. He was hanged in Atlanta on June 7.
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