The Cherokee Path passed near Haig’s Hill. It was named after George Haig, an Indian trader and Deputy Surveyor General. Haig surveyed many of the early land grants in the area in the early 1730s and 1740s. He was killed by an Iroquois raiding party in 1748.

It was George Haig who surveyed on December 10, 1741, a grant of land made to Mrs. Mary Russell (wife of Charles Russell), to be held in trust for her children.