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Camp Trail of Tears Ground McGinnis Cemetery er State Park Cemetery Riv KENTUCKY Trail Segment Northern Hildebrand REMOVAL CAMPS Anna Berry's Ferry Route Bollinger Mill Jackson After being forcibly removed from Route Crabb-Abbott Farm Northern their homes in Georgia, Alabama, Mantle Rock Tennessee, and North Carolina, most Cape Girardeau Oh Route io 24 Cherokee are moved into 11 removal Springﬁeld camps—10 in Tennessee and one in Wilson's Creek Big Spring Alabama. There they await the start TRAIL’S END National Battleﬁeld of an 800-mile journey. Bowling Green Cu m The last detachment arrives in ROSS’S LANDING be rland

Indian Territory on March 24, Location: Present-day Chattanooga, T

e 1839. The Cherokee are promised n Tennessee. From June 6 to June 17, 1838, subsistence rations through March BENGE ROUTE 57 n Hopkinsville Trail of Tears Commemorative Park three detachments are forced to leave e Riv Columbus-Belmont s er 1, 1840, in compliance with the Starting from Fort Payne, on September s their homeland for Indian Territory. State Park e Treaty of New Echota. 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 Location: Present-day Charleston,

Polson Cemetery Military Port Royal State Park Location: Present-day Wolftever Creek, Tennessee. From August 23 to Park Benge Tennessee. Two detachments totaling

December 5, 1838, 10 detachments

Disbandment Route 65 1,642 Cherokee leave in September 1838 totaling 9,302 Cherokee are 24

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WESTVILLE AREA R Fitzgerald Station i BLYTHE FERRY 540 v Tulsa Reverend Bushyhead Grave e Nashville 40 Location: Meigs County, Woodhall Homeplace r 40 Fayetteville Tennessee. Nine detachments Knoxville Westville with more than 9,000 Indians 40 Tahlequah 40 cross the Tennessee River. (see list and note below) TENNESSEE Fort Gibson Mrs. Webber's Plantation Stones River Great Smoky Stilwell Taylor Mountains R Evansville National Battleﬁeld CHARLESTON AREA is er National Park o v Route Fort Cass n i i R Drew Route l Batesville l 540 Lewis Ross Home

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BELL ROUTE overland water route CHATTANOOGA AREA Cabin Starting from Fort Cass on October Birthplace Cherokee i Audubon Acres/Spring Frog Cabin 75 40 p 11, 1838, John Bell of the Treaty Museum Van Buren ip Brainerd Mission Cemetery s Party leads 660 Cherokee, ending Blythe Ferry Junaluska Memorial 40 is Brown’s Ferry Tavern Site Fort s Ar s at present-day Evansville, Arkansas. and Museum ka i Chattanooga Regional History Museum Lindsay ns 55 a M John Ross House Hair Calhoun TAHLEQUAH AREA Fort Smith s River ARKANSAS Bell Fort Delaney Cherokee Heritage Center Ross's Landing Conrad Fort Coffee National Historic Site Russellville Route Cabin Charleston George M. Murrell Home Vann’s Plantation (see list above) Hiw Fort Smith Wynne Chattanooga assee R Illinois Campground Lake Dardanelle State Park W Murphy Village Creek 24 (see nearby list) o 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 Memphis r r Historical Museum Red Clay State Historic Area TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA The Cherokee National Council 40 Waterloo Landing Drane Route r designates Tahlequah as the overland water route e iv Chief Vann House Historic Site capital of the Cherokee Nation 55 R

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OKLAHOMA k e T k e (see nearby list) State Historic Site a WATER DETACHMENTS n GEORGIA n n Deas-Whiteley Route e s Cherokee removals from Ross’s Landing ss a overland water route ee s and Fort Cass include four water route

Little River Canyon 530 detachments that prove to be punishing Guntersville Rive for the Indians: 3,103 depart; 2,273 arrive National Preserve Rome r Water FORT PAYNE AREA at Mrs. Webber’s Plantation (near present- 85 Route Andrew Ross Home Chieftains Museum/ day Stilwell), Fort Coffee, Lee’s Creek (near Major Ridge Home Arkansas Post Stilwell), and Illinois Campground (near Fort Payne Cabin Site ALABAMA Willstown Mission Cemetery National Tahlequah). 75 Memorial Cedar Town Encampment Atlanta

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