1042 Trail of Tears

Category: Markers

Marker reads, A camping ground, October 1838, for a part of the Cherokee Indians who were forcibly moved from their homes in the SmoKY Mountain region of North Carolina and Tennessee to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Badly clothed and fed, hundreds became ill and many died, among them the aged and highly respected chiefs, Fly Smith and Whitepath. Their graves on bank of Little River.