44 INDIANA M Louisville is si ss ip Ri p ver i 65 ILLINOIS
io Steelville Community Park Oh MISSOURI Rolla
Laughlin Massey Ri ve 57 Park Iron 55 r Works Roubidoux Elizabethtown Spring
63 Camp Ground McGinnis Cemetery Trail of Tears Cemetery ver KENTUCKY REMOVAL CAMPS Trail Segment Ri KANSAS Northern State Park Most Cherokee are forcibly removed from their
Hildebrand Berry’s Ferry homes in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Route Bollinger Mill Route Jackson Hamburg Carolina to US Army camps and forts. They are Northern Hill Mantle then moved to more centrally located removal
Ohio Rock Route camps in Tennessee and Alabama. Weakened by Cape Girardeau disease, they wait for months to start the 800-mile Springfield JACKSON AREA 60 57 journey to Indian Territory. Wilson's Creek Greens Ferry Road Fort Massac Big Spring National Battlefield New Madrid Riverfront State Park 24 TRAIL’S END Old Greenville Cu Paducah Bowling Green m The last detachment arrives in Indian Recreation Area ROSS’S LANDING be rland
Territory on March 24, 1839. The Cherokee 60 Location: Present-day Chattanooga, Stone County Fort Definace T e 62 are promised subsistence rations through State Park n Tennessee. From June 6 to June 17, 1838, Historical Society March 1, 1840, in compliance with the Treaty BENGE ROUTE n Hopkinsville Trail of Tears Commemorative Park three detachments are forced to leave e Riv 65 Columbus-Belmont s er of New Echota. Starting from Fort Payne, on September 60 s 41 their homeland for Indian Territory. State Park e 71 28, 1838, Cherokee leader John Benge e
Gray's Inn Pea Ridge escorts 1,079 Cherokee toward present-
FORT CASS National day Stilwell, Oklahoma. VANN’S PLANTATION 160 Location: Present-day Charleston, Military Polson Cemetery Port Royal State Park Location: Present-day Wolftever Creek, Park 63 Tennessee. From August 23 to
Benge Tennessee. Two detachments totaling 79 December 5, 1838, 10 detachments
Disbandment Route 65 1,642 Cherokee leave in September 1838 totaling 9,302 Cherokee are 24
44 62 bound for Indian Territory. Routes marched from Fort Cass toward
FAYETTEVILLE AREA 62 81 Indian Territory.
Razorback Regional Greenway
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
WESTVILLE AREA R Trail of Tears Park i BLYTHE FERRY v Tulsa Reverend Bushyhead Grave 49 e Nashville 40 Location: Meigs County, Woodhall Homeplace r 40 Fayetteville Tennessee. Nine detachments Knoxville 69 Westville with more than 9,000 Indians 40 Nathan Bedford TENNESSEE Tahlequah 40 cross the Tennessee River. (see list and note below) Forrest State Park East Fork Recreation Area Mrs. Webber's Prairie Grove 411 Fort Gibson Plantation Battlefield State Park Stones River Great Smoky Stilwell Taylor Mountains R Evansville National Battlefield is er CHARLESTON AREA National Park o v Route n 59 i i R Hiwassee River Heritage Center Drew Route l 65 Batesville l 49
I Museum of the
overland water route Fort Cass
Bell-Whitely-Drane Route Sequoyah's Sequoyah Cherokee Indian
BELL ROUTE
overland water route Cabin 43 CHATTANOOGA AREA Birthplace Cherokee i Starting from Fort Cass on October 75 40 p 11, 1838, John Bell of the Treaty Audubon Acres/Spring Frog Cabin Museum Van Buren ip 167 s Party leads 660 Cherokee, ending Brainerd Mission Cemetery Blythe Ferry Junaluska Memorial 40 is Fort A s Brown’s Ferry Tavern Site rk s at present-day Evansville, Arkansas. and Museum a 55 i Lindsay ns John Ross House 19 a M Calhoun TAHLEQUAH AREA s r ARKANSAS Hair Fort Smith Rive Bell David Crockett Ross's Landing Conrad Cherokee Heritage Center National Historic Site Russellville Vann’s Plantation Sewanee Charleston Unicoi Fort Coffee 64 Route State Park Cabin Fort Delaney Hunter’s Home (see list above) Hiw Turnpike Fort Smith Wynne Mud Island 72 Chattanooga assee R Illinois Campground Lake Dardanelle State Park W Murphy 64 Village Creek 24 (see nearby list) o 64 River Park lf Park Hill Mission Cemetery t Fort Butler State Park Tennessee River Museum Pulaski e Cadron Settlement Park v Cherokee County Ross Cemetery C e 49 Memphis Shiloh National 43 r r 64 Historical Museum Tom Lee Park Military Park Red Clay State Historic Park TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA Chickamauga and The Cherokee National Council 40 Chattanooga National 67 Waterloo Landing Drane Route Military Park designates Tahlequah as the overland water route r Chief Vann House Historic Site capital of the Cherokee Nation e 55 v on October 19, 1841. 72 i R Roundup Little Rock 79 Sheffield Fort Cumming North Little Rock 27 Routes Riverfront Park S 565 Huntsville p r 411 Fort Newnan i n Fort Wool g
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OKLAHOMA k e e k n (see nearby list) State Historic Site a The water routes were punishing—3,103 n GEORGIA n Deas-Whiteley Route es s departed, 2,273 arrived at Mrs. Webber’s se a overland water route 231 e s Plantation, Lee’s Creek (near Stilwell), Funk Heritage
165 Little River Canyon 530 Guntersville 75 Center Fort Coffee, and Illinois Campground National Preserve Riv Rome er Water (near Tahlequah). FORT PAYNE AREA Route ALABAMA Andrew Ross Home 431 Chieftains Museum/ 85 Fort Payne Cabin Site Major Ridge Home Arkansas Post Willstown Mission Cemetery National Cedar Town Cherokee Garden at Memorial 65 Encampment Green Meadows Preserve 59 Atlanta Kennesaw Mountain MISSISSIPPI National Battlefield Park
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