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PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE National Historic Trail Trail PAID of LITTLE ROCK, AR Tears PERMIT 196 Association Trail of Trail News 1100 N. University, Suite 143 Tears Little Rock, AR 72207-6344 Association TOTA and Eastern Band Share , NC, for Fall Events Conference and Fall Festival both scheduled for week of October 6 - 9, 2003

The 8th Annual Trail of Tears Association the conference presentations will be topics • John C. Campbell Folk School – This Conference and Symposium is being held dealing with the removal exemption of the school overlooks Little Brasstown Creek, this year at the Holiday Inn, in Cherokee, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Trail a Cherokee community during the North Carolina, October 6 – 9, 2003—the of Tears in North Carolina, the cultural removal era. same time that the Eastern Band of landscape of , intermar- • Cherokee County Historical Museum – Cherokee Indians is holding its annual Fall riage between Europeans and Indians in the This museum, located in the town of Festival. With both events happening at the eighteenth-century South, Creek removal, Murphy, is a newly certified site of the same time, in the same place, conferees land conservation strategies of The Trust national historic trail. will never be without something fun to do! for Public Land, trail preservation, and Moravian missionaries. Updates on the The Museum and Mound Tour will include ’s efforts and Trail visits to the Important Ballot Enclosed of Tears research will be provided. • Memorial Museum – Junaluska was a leader of the Cherokee Two field trips are scheduled–the Driving people at the time of removal. EXPERIENCE YOUR AMERICA Tour and the Museum and Mound Tour– • Kituhwa Mound – The traditional place both led by Dr. Brett Riggs. Dr. Riggs is a of origin for the Cherokee people. research archaeologist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of North For more information and to register for Photo by Andrea J. Sharon Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is co-author of the conference, see the insert and the last This year’s conference will be held in Cherokee, NC, home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. the recently published book Cherokee page of this newsletter. $$$$$$$$ Challenge Cost-Shar e PPrr ogram - 2004 $$$$$$$$ Heritage Trails Guidebook (2003) and author The conference will commence Monday of a forthcoming book on Cherokee life in As you read through the many Projects should support the resource protection, manage- night, October 6, with a reception/book North Carolina at the time of removal. The projects mentioned in this programs and goals of the Trail ment, visitor use facilities, signing at the Museum of the Cherokee Driving Tour will include visits to the: newsletter, you might notice of Tears National Historic Trail interpretation, education, or Indian, and will continue through Thursday, • Gideon Morris and John Welch Farms – that quite a few are receiving as set forth in the Comprehen- research. Projects require a October 9, with scholarly presentations After obtaining permits to keep their funding from the National sive Management and Use 50/50 match of Federal and and two exciting, historical tours. Among land, these two helped keep Park Service Challenge Cost- Plan. non-Federal funding. How- other Cherokees fed and hidden in the Share Program. Your project ever, the non-Federal match mountains during removal. INSIDE THIS ISSUE might qualify, too. Give us a Remember, Challenge Cost-Share can include the value of • Situagi Farm – Situagi was the conductor call and we can send you a funds are not a grant, but volunteer time and other in-  2003 TOTA Conference...... 1 for one of the removal detachments. project proposal form and rather are funds for mutually- kind services, donated equip-  Message from TOTA President..... 2 • Peter Oganaya Farm and Church –  Association Office Update...... 2 instructions. agreed-upon national historic ment and supplies, and so Cherokees assembled themselves here for  Certified Trail Sites...... 3 a final church service before they were to trail projects. forth. If you're not sure  Association Chapter Contacts...... 3 be marched out for removal the next day. If you have a possible project, whether or not your project  Garrison Gold Award...... 3 • Aquohee District Courthouse – Place contact John Conoboy by mail Site-specific projects can gener- will qualify, call us anyway,  Chapter News...... 4-5 where the Cherokee organized resistance or phone (505-988-6733) right ally only be funded for certified and let's talk.  Multiple Property Documentation Form...... 6 to removal. away. sites. Projects can be related to  Brainerd Mission...... 7 • Ft.Butler – U.S. government held Project proposals should be received  Conference Info & Schedule...... 7 Cherokee prisoners here.  Conference Registration...... INSERT Photo courtesy of Museum of the Cherokee Indian • Valleytowns Baptist Mission – Boarding at the National Trails System Office - Santa Fe  Interpretive Plan A young visitor interacts with the Cherokee syl- school and training ground for many labary display at the Museum of the Cherokee by February 29, 2004. Action Items Ballot...... INSERT removal-era Cherokee leaders. Indian.

Newsletter of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Partnership • August 2003 - Number 3 A Message from the Trail of Tears Association President Vision Becoming Reality - Developing the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Through Partnerships In the last newsletter I gave my vision for National Members of one state chapter may be the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. In Association able to help other state chapters with Despite this tragic event in our Nation’s Newly Certified Sites Trail of Tears Association this one I will give my vision for the Trail of approve all their projects. Also, state chapters may history, the Cherokee and other South- Audubon Acres, TN State Chapter Contacts Brainerd Mission Cemetery, TN Tears Association. I would like to see nine projects of wish to join together on projects that eastern tribes built successful communities Alabama Browns Ferry Tavern, TN that exist today. Old traces, historic build- Alabama Chapter strong state chapters with each working state chap overlap state boundaries. When the web Cherokee County Historical Museum, NC ings, and other sites are being preserved to Trail of Tears Association closely with the National Association, with ters. It is site for the Association is completed, Chieftains Musem/ Home, GA commemorate the sorrowful journey. 100 Hughes Road Murrell Home, OK all of the other state chapters, and with the important notices of all state chapter meetings will Madison, AL 35758 National Park Service. This will ensure that this be be posted. Not only will members be able A variety of local, state, and national efforts that our shared vision for the Trail of Tears done so to see when their chapter is meeting but have commenced to preserve, develop, and Arkansas Certified Sites interpret Trail resources. A growing aware- Kitty Sloan National Historic Trail will come to pass. that we can members of other chapters will also be Chattanooga Regional History Museum, P.O. B ox 1351 all work able to see when the other chapters are ness of this important story—and those of TN Paragould, AR 72451 With the formation of the Illinois State together for meeting and can schedule a visit to the other removed tribes— has stimulated , OK interest in nationally recognizing this chap- Chapter in the last few weeks, the only our com- other chapter’s meeting. This could give Lake Dardanelle State Park, AR Georgia ter in our Nation’s past. The Trail of Tears Museum of the Cherokee Indian, NC state without a chapter is Kentucky. A mon goal of the visitor insight into things that might Patsy Edgar Jack Baker, President of the Trail National Historic Trail tells of the State Historic Site,GA Kentucky chapter should be established of Tears Association preserving be done in their own chapter. (Hopefully, 546 East Wesley Road, NE Cherokees’ ordeal—but many tribes can Red Clay State Historic Area, TN Atlanta, GA 30305 later this year. This will complete the goal and promoting the National Historic Trail it will not give them insight into some- Birthplace Museum, TN tell similar stories. Email: [email protected] of the Association as stated in the as well as telling the story of the forced thing that should not be done – but even Museum, TN Comprehensive Management Plan for the removal of the various tribes. It will enable this could strengthen their own chapter.) In 1987, Congress acknowledged the sig- Trail of Tears Commemorative Park, KY North Carolina Trail of Tears State Park, MO Trail to have a state chapter in each of the the Association to focus the resources of nificance of the Trail by establishing the Jane Eastman Vann House Historic Site, GA states through which the Trail of Tears all the state chapters into this goal. My vision is a strong National Association Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. The 61 Pecan Drive passed! that gets its strength from nine strong National Park Service administers the Trail Sylva, NC 28779 in cooperation with federal, state, and local In order to have a strong state chapter, all state chapters working together. The Pending Certifications agencies; the and the Tennessee Our focus now must be on strengthening members should work together on proj- above items are some of the things that Coke Ovens Museum Trail Segments, TN Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; inter- Lee Trevino City of Chattanooga trail routes and our chapters. It is important that each ects to achieve our common goal. It is also may be done to reach this goal for the 460 Tate Road ested groups; and private landowners. historic sites, TN Chapter be in compliance with their very important that members make every Association. By strengthening the Sewanee, TN 37375 City of Nashville trail routes, TN bylaws and the National bylaws. Meetings attempt to attend the state meetings. This Association we can reach our common Email: [email protected] The Trail of Tears Association and the City of North Little Rock trail routes, sites, and election of officers should be held as is especially important if you are in a lead- goals for the Trail of Tears National National Park Service’s National Trails AR Missouri specified by the bylaws. The minutes and ership position. Historic Trail. System Office -Santa Fe have all been work- Gray's Inn, KY Hershel Price ing with Trail partners toincreasevisibility treasurer’s reports should be submitted to 1958 Hill Road for the Trail and to develop it for visitor use. Federal Protection Components the National Association as required. I would also like to see much more inter- Jack D. Baker Jackson, MO 63755 Cherokee Removal Memorial Park - The National bylaws require that the action between and among state chapters. Additional sites have been certified and Email: [email protected] numerous on-the-ground projects have , TVA land, TN Fort Smith National Historic Site, AR been completed, such as signing the route, Oklahoma Mark Twain National Forest, MO A Message from the National Trail of Tears Association Office visitor-use development, interpretive way- Curtis Rohr Pea Ridge National Military Park, AR side exhibits, and interior museum exhibits 24880 South 4106 Road Since May, the Association office has been action by the board, Association staff met On August 12, the bylaws committee met Shawnee National Forest, MO at existing facilities. Many more are being Claremore, OK 74017 occupied with several projects, namely the with Aristotle, Inc., the company chosen to to edit both the national and chapter planned. Email: [email protected] board of directors meeting in June, web- create the website, to discuss in more detail bylaws. The chapter bylaws and national site design, the Illinois chapter formation, what items should be included in the bylaws are now more uniform and consis- conference planning, and preparation for design. The Association office is still work- tent with one another. Look for more NPS Shares Cash Award with Trail of Tears Association and Santa Fe Trail Association a bylaws committee meeting. ing with Aristotle to design the site and details in the next issue of Trail News. The National Trails System Office – Santa award recognizes the accomplishments anticipates that it will be completed by the Fe was recently awarded the Intermoun- and the maturing of the interpretive pro- The board of directors met in Knoxville, end of the year. The conference planning committee has tain Region Garrision Gold Award. This is gram for the Trail of Tears and Santa Fe Tennessee, on June 4, 2003, for their bi- been busy preparing for the annual con- an internal National Park Service award for National Historic Trails. This would not annual meeting On July 8, Association President Jack Baker ference. Remember to mark your calendar the best overall interpretation program. have happened without the strength that (more details on and I traveled to Edwardsville, Illinois, to for the 8th Annual TOTA Conference and Competing with over 80 other NPS areas comes from partnerships, especially with page 7). After meet with interested parties to form the Symposium, October 6 – 9, 2003, in in the region, the nomination was based on the Trail of Tears Association and Santa Fe hearing a report Illinois chapter. Rowena McClinton, an Cherokee, North Carolina. More details the total program for both the Trail of Trail Association. We feel it is very appro- on the design Illinois representative on the TOTA board are on page 1 and page 7 and a registration Tears and Santa Fe National Historic Trails. priate to recognize this partnership by possibilities and and Director for Native American Studies at form has been inserted. If you have any In addition to receiving a pottery story- sharing the cash award and giving each costs, the board Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville questions about the conference, please teller figure by Mary and Leonard Trujillo association $1,000 from the award. Former Photo by Kaisa Barthuli decided to go (SIUE), hosted the meeting on the SIUE contact me by phone at 800-441-4513 or from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico— trail office interpretive specialist Cherry John Conoboy (right), Chief of Interpretation and Resource Management, and Andrea Sharon (left), forward with campus. After the Association’s executive by email at [email protected]. $2,000 was added to the Santa Fe office’s Payne and former superintendent David Interpretive Specialist, display the Cochiti Pueblo the creation of committee approves the chapter bylaws that interpretation budget! John Conoboy, Gaines also deserve credit for their contri- storyteller figure they received as part of the NPS the website. As the group voted on at the meeting, elections Jerra M. Quinton Intermountain Region Garrison Gold Award. Jerra Quinton, Trail of Tears Chief of Interpretation and Resource butions to both trails interpretive pro- Associaiton Coordinator a result of this for the chapter will be held. Association Coordinator Management, said, “The Garrison Gold grams."

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Arkansas Missouri (continued) Oklahoma (continued) Georgia (continued) Georgia (continued) The chapter met in January at the Museum passed. The full report will be posted at the Oklahoma chapter to 82. Our memorial Floyd College. Initial response and sign-up local county commissions and the state’s of Prehistory and History on the campus of www.anpa.ualr.edu. Press coverage of the committee continues to research and verify looks like the course will be a sell-out. Department of Transportation in their Arkansas Tech University at Russellville. The report has already prompted the North other requests as they are received. efforts. The Federal Road was used exten- museum features a hand-hewn pine cup- Little government to accelerate Patsy Edgar and Dola Davis attended the sively during the Cherokee removal. board from the original Dwight Mission and discussions about a possible Trail of Tears Plans are being made by a considerable semi-annual board meeting in Knoxville in a new exhibit spotlighting four women con- interpretive center. In addition to the pre- number of our members to attend the June and enjoyed hearing of the Trust for Chapter secretary Wanda Patterson has nected to the Arkansas Cherokee communi- sentations, Kitty Sloan was elected chapter national TOTA conference in North Public Land’s effort with their Trail of Tears written a form letter with pertinent infor- ty, 1809-1828. Dr. Dan Littlefield, director president, and Sarah Keating was elected Carolina in October. We will have the 1835 Site Protection Initiative, as well as news mation about the significance of Georgia’s of the American Native Press Archives, dis- vice president. Keating is interpreter at Photo courtesy of Mary Riesberg Cherokee Census books available for sale at from the national Association. participation in the removal and compiled tributed a list of 34 major removal contin- Lake Dardanelle State Park, a certified Chapter members (left to right) Jean O’Brien, Bob the conference for $28.00. The Butrick a list of key Congressional representatives gents that traveled through the Russellville TOTNHT site, which just opened a new Friedrich, Brick Autry, and Hershel Price host booth Journal will also be available for $12.00. Dr. Sarah Hill’s research on Fort Wool at from Georgia. With these documents, at the April 2003 meeting at Fort Davidson. area along the Arkansas River Valley visitors center that includes an interactive New Echota has turned-up evidence of two chapter members have been writing their between 1831 and 1858, and included all Trail of Tears exhibit. type of information that could be gained Betty Barker and Curtis Rohr attended the additional storehouses, an office, two sets Congressional representatives to help drum five of the affected tribes. from it. He also discussed other papers that June 4, 2003, national TOTA board of of officer quarters and possible winter up support for legislative action to change The Arkansas chapter will meet again on have been included in the database. directors meeting as our two chapter repre- quarters. Her research is in conjunction the Trail to include Georgia and North In April, the chapter piggybacked its meet- Saturday, October 25, at 1 p.m., at the sentatives. We appreciate all who are dedi- with the state of Georgia’s Office of the Carolina. ing with the annual conference of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, 118 W. The chapter also held a board meeting. Dis- cated to preserving our Cherokee heritage State Archaeologist and through a cost- Arkansas Historical Association at the Johnson Ave., Springdale. The program will cussion included the NPS’ Comprehensive and history and perpetuating it into the share program with the NPS. Additional Georgia chapter nominations are underway University of Arkansas at Monticello. The focus, though not exclusively, on the Interpretive Planning session, held in future. Thanks again to the national finds on Fort Cumming and other Georgia to fill upcoming vacancies of several conference theme was Arkansas in the Era of Northern and the Benge routes through Memphis in April. In addition, elections Association folks for their dedication and forts are being discovered also. Possible Georgia chapter board positions. One of the Louisiana Purchase, and several of the northwest Arkansas. All are invited. were held for the vacant board positions. great work. future archaeological work at these sites the most significant is the position of presi- presentations addressed Indian Removal, Denise Dowling was elected to the national will help secure new information and sup- dent. With President Patsy Edgar having including a featured talk by chapter presi- Missouri board replacing the late Dr. Donald Lance. Georgia port to protect the location of these sites. served out the maximum length of her dent Dan Littlefield. A TOTA table display The last Missouri chapter meeting was Bob Friedrich and Roy Clevenger were Certified Trial of Tears site Chieftain’s term, we are looking for the next president helped generate additional interest. held at Fort Davidson State Historic Site in elected to chapter board positions. Museum-Major Ridge Home has opened a Georgia chapter member Charles Walker to carry the Georgia chapter forward. Pilot Knob, Missouri, on April 12, 2003. It newly renovated building, the Cherokee and chapter research chair Doug Mabry Although she will continue to be an active In July, the chapter met at the Historic was held in conjunction with the Scottish The next scheduled chapter meeting will be Studies Center. Chieftains is also sponsor- have been working on documenting and member in many ways, Patsy and her lead- Arkansas Museum in Little Rock. Museum Games Festival – Brigadoon in the Valley. October 12, 2003, at the Scottish Festival in ing the Cherokee Nation history course preserving the last remnants of the old ership will be missed. We thank Patsy for director Bill Worthen offered a fascinating Chief John Ross was a descendent of the Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. The from the Cherokee Nation. The four-day Federal Road. Assisted by TOTA President her dedication, enthusiasm and loyalty to report on the myth and mystery surround- Scottish clan Ross. The chapter set up a chapter will also have a booth at the festival. course will be taught in Rome, Georgia, at Jack Baker, they have been working with the chapter these past years. ing the burial of Quatie Ross, who died near booth at the games with maps and infom- Little Rock on February 1, 1839. Her long- Oklahoma mation about the Trail of Tears. Many visi- Are you a member of TOTA? lost original memorial stone, thought to tors stopped by and took information. At The Oklahoma chapter continues to honor If not, and you would like to continue receiving Trail News, have been placed at the old city cemetery by the chapter the survivors of the Trail of Tears by placing please join TOTA today! Little Rock leaders, is being conserved by meeting, a bronze marker on their gravestone. On the museum. A later stone was placed at Lynn April 12, 2003, following the chapter’s fall Mount Holly Cemetery in the 1930s. Also, membership meeting, a memorial tribute MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Morrow Membership in the Mark Christ of the Arkansas Historic from the was held at the Cherokee National Preservation Program provided an update State Cemetery in Fort Gibson. Those honored Trail of Tears Association on the state agency’s activities related to the Archives were George Osceola Sanders, William automatically includes National Register and proposed wayside discussed Pettit, Elizabeth Hilderbrand Armstrong, membership in one state interpretation. And Dr. Littlefield, with his the con- Elizabeth Alabama Schrimsher Bushyhead, 1100 N. University, Suite 143 chapter. Additional state students Fuller Bumpers and Amanda Paige, tents of the Sarah Walker Starr Mayfield, Catherine Little Rock, AR 72207-6344 memberships are $10 each. summarized their report on the North Little Archives Gunter Ross, Minerva Jane Foreman Vann, Name ______Rock site through which 40,000 removees and how to and Elizabeth (Lizzie) McIntosh Casey. On Address ______ANNUAL access it. April 26, 2003, Moses Chuculate was hon- City ______State _____ Zip ______MEMBERSHIP DUES He high ored at the Peters Cemetery in Sallisaw. On Phone (Day) ______(Evening) ______Updates from the Trail of Tears June 21, 2003, Samuel Still was honored at Email______$25.00 Association state chapters will routinely Photo courtesy of Mary Riesberg lighted the the Foreman Cemetery, and Nancy Dry State Chapter(s)______appear in future issues of this newsletter. Chapter member Brick Autry stands state road Contact Jerra Quinton, Trail of Tears by a Cherokee Nation flag, present- map data- Sixkiller was honored at the Green Payments to the Trail of Tears Association Association coordinator, at 501-666-9032, ed to the chapter as a personal gift State Chapters: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, are tax deductible under section 501 (c) base and Cemetery, both in Westville. These mark- to submit information and photographs. from Principal Chief , at Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee (3) of the Internal Revenue code. the chapter meeting in April 2003. showed the ings brought the total survivors honored by

4 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News Trail of Tears National Historic Trail News 5 Board Meets in Knoxville Trail of Tears Trail of Tears National Park Service Brainerd Mission Cemetery Becomes National Historic Trail Association Trail National Trails System The Association board met in June in of Office - Santa Fe Trail of Tear’s Newest Certified Site Tears Knoxville, Tennessee. Dale Allen and Association The American Board of Commissioners for was held at the Brainerd Mission near the Rick Wood from The Trust for Public Trail News is produced by the part- The Trail of Tears Association has The National Trails System Office -Santa Foreign Missions developed the Brainerd cemetery. The mission subsequently closed. Land (TPL) gave a presentation on how nership of the Trail of Tears Association entered into a cooperative agreement Fe (the former Long Distance Trails the TPL can be a partner to TOTA in and the National Park Service National with the National Park Service to promote Group Office) administers the Trail of Mission originally within the Cherokee Trails System Office - Santa Fe. and engage in the protection and Tears National Historic Trail, the Santa Nation. The property, buildings, and On June 11, 2003, a signing ceremony was protecting trail sites. The board, in turn, preservation of the Trail of Tears National Fe National Historic Trail, and the Route held at the Brainerd Mission Cemetery in decided to create a resolution of support Historic Trail resources; to promote improvements were purchased from John Managing Editors 66 Corridor Preservation Program. El for TPL’s Site Protection Initiative. Jerra Quinton and Andrea Sharon awareness of the Trail’s legacy, includ- Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National McDonald, the grandfather of Cherokee Chattanooga to officially certify the site as ing the effects of the U.S. Historic Trail is administered jointly by Chief John Ross. The mission was the prin- the newest certified site on the Trail of Contributors Government’s Indian Removal Policy on the National Trails System Office-Santa Paul Austin gave the staff report and Jack Baker, Steve Burns, John Conoboy, the Cherokee and other tribes; and to Tears National Historic Trail. Pat Reed, Fe and the New Mexico State Office of brought to light the need to reappoint a Aaron Mahr, Jerra Quinton, Andrea perpetuate the management and the Bureau of Land Management. Superinten-dent of Chickamauga Sharon, and the TOTA state chapters. development techniques that are con- Chattanooga National Military Park stood representative to the Partnership for the sistent with the National Park Service’s These trail and corridor programs are National Trails System to replace Mary Designers Trail plan. administered in partnership with in for the National Trails System Office and Jerra Quinton and Andrea Sharon American Indian tribes; federal, state, presented the newly developed certificates Tidwell, who is no longer a member of Trail of Tears Association Editor and local agencies; non-government of certification. Brainerd Mission is the first the board. Jerra Quinton, Association 1100 North University, Suite 143 organizations; and private landowners. Jane Harvey Little Rock, Arkansas 72207 certified site to receive these attractive new Coordinator, was appointed as the new certificates that in the near future will representative. Phone: 800-441-4513 National Trails System Office - Santa Fe Comments and/or Address 501-666-9032 PO Box 728 hopefully be provided to all certified sites. Changes? Contact: Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 Future plans at the cemetery anticipate Discussion evolved over the need for E-Mail: [email protected] Pat Reed, Chickamauga Chattanooga National better communication between TOTA Jerra Quinton Military Park, presents members of DAR and SAR development of new wayside exhibits, Trail of Tears Association Phone: 505-988-6888 certificate of certification for Brainerd Mission development of a site bulletin, and new and the NPS. TOTA agreed to work with Cemetery. 1100 N. University, Suite 143 national historic trail signing. For more the NPS on improving communication E-Mail: [email protected] Little Rock, AR 72207-6344 cipal mission among other, smaller ones information on this newly certified site, and, subsequently, TOTA and NPS have [email protected] Website: www.nps.gov/trte within the Cherokee Nation, and served as please visit the Trail of Tears NHT website implemented a communication process a training ground for the American Board. at www.nps.gov/trte. for alerting members and chapters of On August 18, 1838, the last church service NPS travel and programs. Keeper Accepts Multiple Property Documentation Form into National Register On June 26, 2003, the Keeper of the Through a cost-share agreement with the Currently their list includes, in Oklahoma, 8th Annual TOTA Conference & Symposium Information National Register of Historic Places accept- NPS, the Office of Archeological Research the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead grave and Holiday Inn • Make check out to and Tentative Schedule ed the Trail of Tears Multiple Property of the University of Alabama is developing the Illinois Campground; in Missouri, the Hwy. 19 South mail to: Documentation Form (MPDF) into the National Register nominations or nomina- the Nancy Bushyhead Walker Hildebrand Cherokee, NC 28719 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday National Register. This is a major step for- tion updates for Tuscumbia Landing, Grave, Green's Ferry, the Bainbridge Ferry (828) 497-9181 Trail of Tears Association Morning Morning Morning ward in the evolution of the Trail of Tears Gunter’s Landing, Fort Likens, and Fort road, the Bainbridge Ferry, the Snelson- 1100 N. University, Ste 143 Special Rate National Historic Trail, and will undoubted- Payne. Brinker House, Indian Ford, and the Peter Little Rock, AR 72207 8:00 AM - Noon 8:30 - 9:30 AM 8:30 - 9:30 AM $69.00 + tax (7%) ly accelerate the movement to nominate trail Brickey House; in Illinois, the Golconda- Registration at General Assembly General Assembly Cut-off date: • For further information, T Holiday Inn Keynote: CN Chief NPS Update sites to the National Register. In Tennessee, the Center for Historic Hamburg Landing road and the Camp September 6, 2003 call (501) 666-9032 or R Preservation (CHP) at Middle Tennessee Ground Cumberland Presbyterian Church Group Block: 1-800-441-4513. 8:30 AM - Noon 9:45 - 10:45 AM 9:45 - 10:45 AM A 3rd Concurrent Sessions 5th Concurrent Sessions Already, many entities, either on their own and Cemetery; in Tennessee, the Hatchie Trail of Tears Board Meeting State University has entered into a cost V or with the support and assistance of the share-agreement with the NPS to prepare River Ferry, the Reynoldsburg-Paris road, REGISTRATION 11:00 AM - Noon 11:00 AM - Noon NPS, are identifying, assessing, and nomi- nomination updates for Brainerd Mission Hill's Road at the Cumberland Plateau, and Includes 2 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 1 reception. E 4th Concurrent Sessions 6th Concurrent Sessions ______nating Trail of Tears sites to the National Cemetery, Ross’ Landing, Blythe Ferry, the the Bolivar-Sommerville Road. L EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION Lunch Lunch Lunch Register. In Arkansas, the Arkansas Historic , and the Port Royal RECEIVED ON or BEFORE September 15, 2003 Preservation Program (AHPP) has nominat- Historic District; nominations for Kelly’s The NPS has also entered into a cost share Member - $75.00 Noon - 1:15 PM Noon - 1:15 PM Noon - 1:15 PM Non-member - $100.00 (includes membership) Chapter Reports Children's Choir ed Blackfish Lake Ferry and the Military Ferry Road and Cemetery; and assessments agreement with the University of North Keynote: EBCI Chief ______Road-Village Creek segment. Both of these for Fort Hill Cemetery, Elkton Turnpike, Carolina to assess for National Register eli- LATE REGISTRATION Afternoon Afternoon Afternoon Afternoon properties were listed in the National Rock River Road and Crossing, Higgins gibility the Situagi House site, the RECEIVED AFTER September 15, 2003 or ON-SITE Member - $125.00 1:30 - 7:30 PM 1:30 - 4:30 PM Register on April 10-11, 2003. Also, listed in Farm Trail Trace, and Rock Martin House. Valleytowns Baptist Mission, the John 2:00 - 5:00 PM 1:15 - 2:15 PM Non-member - $150.00 (includes membership) Registration at 1st Concurrent Sessions Driving Tour Museum & Mound Tour June through the efforts of the AHPP is the Christie House and Cabin site, the Old Holiday Inn Military Road-Henard Cemetery Road seg- Thomason and Associates, responsible for State road, Pile Ridge Road, Burnt Stand , TOURS (Deadline to register is September 1, 2003) 2:30 - 3:30 PM ment. The AHPP is also pursuing nomina- the completion of the MPDF, is again under the Unicoi Turnpike , and Fort Butler. Driving Tour (Wednesday, 1:30 - 7:30 pm) 5:30 PM 2nd Concurrent Sessions FEE: $39.00 (Includes transportation, museum fee, & supper) Reception/Book tions for the Military Road-Brownsville seg- contract with the NPS, this time to com- Signing - Museum 4:00 PM (approx.) ment and a National Historic Landmark plete nominations that represent every For more information contact Aaron Mahr Museum & Mound Tour (Thursday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm) of the Cherokee Fall Festival Parade Indian nomination for the Village Creek segment. resource type identified in the MPDF. at the National Trail Office-Santa Fe. FEE: $20.00 (Includes transportation & museum fee)

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