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Calhoun is an incorporated town in McMinn County, Tennessee, and part of the Athens micropolitan statistical area.

Calhoun began around 1808, when John Walker, a part-Cherokee grandson of the Cherokee leader Nancy Ward, established a ferry across the Hiwassee River at the site.

McMinn County was organized at Walker's Calhoun home in 1819, making Calhoun the county's first seat of government before the county seat moved to Athens in 1823.

In 1820, Walker laid out the town and named it for John C. Calhoun, the U.S. Secretary of War who had negotiated the 1819 Calhoun Treaty, in which the Cherokee ceded the lands that became McMinn County.

Former Tennessee governor Joseph McMinn, the county's namesake, spent the last years of his life in Calhoun and is buried in the town's Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery.

Although it was founded in 1820, Calhoun was not incorporated as a town until 1961.

The 2020 census counted 536 residents in Calhoun, a rebound from 490 in 2010.

Those residents formed 230 households and 144 families at the 2020 census, within the town's roughly 1.25 square miles.

The western half of town is dominated by a paper mill established by Bowater in 1954, now operated by Resolute Forest Products, which grew into one of the largest newsprint mills in North America and today produces tissue paper.

Calhoun sits on the north bank of the Hiwassee River across from Charleston in Bradley County, at the junction of U.S. Route 11 and State Route 163 (Bowater Road), near Interstate 75's Exit 36.