Here he met chiefs of the Chickasaws and Cherokees in 1739 to pacify them after a smallpox epidemic. In 1773, Cherokees and Creeks, Catawbas, Chickasaws and Choctaws met here with governors of Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia and the King's representative and signed a treaty of peace. Again, in 1773, Cherokees and Creeks here ceded two million acres in North Georgia. In 1786 fortifications removed and a new church built by the Trustees of Richmond Academy for use by all denominations. In 1818 the site conveyed to the Trustees of the Episcopal Church, who constructed a new St. Paul's Church, which was destroyed in the 1916 fire and replaced by the present structure.
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The Woodrow Wilson Home Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, lived in the house at the corner of Telfair and Seventh streets for nearly 13 years as a child from 1860 to 1870. The home which is currently under restoration by Historic Augusta, served as the manse of the First Presbyterian Church where Wilson's father was pastor from 1858 to 1870. Conn. He was called to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence and political economy in 1890 and became President of Princeton in 1902. He was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1910 and President of the United States in 1912, being re-elected in 1916. He led this country to victory in the First World War and personally attended the Paris Peace Conference where he fathered the ill-starred League of Nations.