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Cherokee Removal Memorial Park is located on the banks of the Tennessee River near Blythe Ferry, which was used to transport many of the Cherokees west on their journey to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. [1] The removal was headquartered at Fort Cass in nearby Charleston.
Red Clay State Historic Park is a state park located in southern Bradley County, Tennessee, United States.The park preserves the Red Clay Council Grounds, which were the site of the last capital of the Cherokee Nation in the eastern United States from 1832 to 1838 before the enforcement of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. [2]
The Cherokee removal (May 25, 1838 – 1839), part of the Indian removal, refers to the forced displacement of an estimated 15,500 Cherokees and 1,500 African-American slaves from the U.S. states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to the West according to the terms of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. [1]
Blythe Ferry was a ferry across the Tennessee River in Meigs County, Tennessee, United States.In 1838, the ferry served as a gathering point and crossing for the Cherokee Removal, commonly called the Trail of Tears, in which thousands of Cherokee were forced to move west to Oklahoma from their homeland in the southeastern United States.
Walkway map at the Cherokee Removal Memorial Park in Tennessee depicting the routes of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, June 2020 Map of National Historic trails. In 1987, about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) of trails were authorized by federal law to mark the removal of 17 detachments of the Cherokee people. [145]
Ross's Landing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the last site of the Cherokee's 61-year occupation of Chattanooga and is considered to be the embarkation point of the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears. Ross's Landing Riverfront Park memorializes the location, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fort Butler Memorial Park marks the site of the fort today. Fort Butler was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears.Located on a hill overlooking present-day Murphy, North Carolina on the Hiwassee River, Fort Butler was the headquarters of the Eastern Division of the U.S. Army overseeing the Cherokee Nation.
The Cherokee Removal Memorial Park, overlooking Hiwassee Island, was established to honor the relationship between Houston and Native Americans who lived in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. It is located near Dayton, Tennessee, and the confluence of the Tennessee and Hiwassee Rivers. [23]