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The story of the house known as Temple Heights provides in microcosm the history of the settlement of the region called the Old Southwest. Including roughly two-thirds of present-day northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama, the area was home to the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes well into the nineteenth century. Limited settlement by white families began following the Chickasaw Treaty of 1816 whereby the Indians ceded a band of land on the east side of the Tombigbee River to the United States. The following year buildings began to be erected in what would become the center of Columbus, Mississippi, as the government began surveys for the construction of a military ...