sentences:  About 9.2% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line.In October 1567, the Juan Pardo expedition is believed to have crossed Little River at what is now Walland.The expedition arrived from the east via Reed Creek and headed west along Hesse Creek, traversing part of Chilhowee Mountain and Happy Valley en route to the village of "Chalahume" on the Little Tennessee River.