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Description:To Waymark of all the Trail Of Tears Markers. Across the 2,200 miles and 9 States. After Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830, the government forceably relocated about 60,000 Indians from the southeastern U.S. to what is now Oklahoma. This included the Five (5) Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw and Seminole. When Andrew Jackson ran for President in 1828, he pledged to move the Indians west of the Mississippi River.
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Trail of TearsCherokee Removal Memorial Park ~ Meigs County Tennessee

in Trail of Tears

Cherokee Removal Memorial Park in Meigs County Tennessee.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member BackBrakeBilly

location: Tennessee

date listed: 9/26/2007

last visited: 9/26/2007

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Trail of TearsBlythe Ferry, Tennessee

in Trail of Tears

This marker at Blythe Ferry describes the forced extraction of the Indian peoples. Some descriptions of their condition and treatment at the Tennessee River crossing is included. A park near this marker has been dedicated to their memory.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member PrognosticatingPedologist

location: Tennessee

date listed: 9/26/2007

last visited: 9/27/2007

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Trail of TearsSMITH'S CROSSROADS

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Kiuka War Trace (later Black Fox Trail) Here in 1838 the Trail of Tears crossed the Tennessee Valley from Blythes Ferry.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Better Half

location: Tennessee

date listed: 10/2/2007

last visited: 10/2/2007

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Trail of TearsChattanooga Trail of Tears

in Trail of Tears

Located on the river front in Ross's Landing Park in Chatanooga, TN

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member CoinsAndPins

location: Tennessee

date listed: 8/27/2007

last visited: 5/10/2008

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S34.8 mi

Trail of TearsMemorial at Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Catoosa County, Georgia

in Trail of Tears

Located on GA 2 east of US 41 at Tiger Creek in Catoosa County, Georgia.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Sprinterman

location: Georgia

date listed: 11/22/2007

last visited: 7/3/2009

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NW42 mi

Trail of TearsCARDWELL MTN SHELLSFORD TRAIL OF TEARS

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Cardwell Mountain Trail of Tears

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Better Half

location: Tennessee

date listed: 9/26/2007

last visited: 9/6/2007

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Trail of TearsFort Cumming

in Trail of Tears

A marker about a fort that was used to enact the Trail of Tears.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ggmorton

location: Georgia

date listed: 8/28/2007

last visited: 8/27/2007

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Trail of TearsBridgeport Historic Marker

in Trail of Tears

This Trail of Tears marker is located on US Highway 72 just south of the Tennessee/Alabama border.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member lazyCachers

location: Alabama

date listed: 2/16/2008

last visited: 5/23/2009

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Trail of TearsFort Gilmer, Georgia

in Trail of Tears

Fort Gilmer was one of the Cherokee Indian removal forts in Georgia. A historical marker located near the former site of the Fort is located on Old US 411 four miles north of Carters, Georgia.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Marine Biologist

location: Georgia

date listed: 12/29/2008

last visited: 12/29/2008

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SE58.3 mi

Trail of TearsFort Hetzel (East Ellijay), GA

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Fort Hetzel marker located on the Zell Miller Mountain Parkway (US 76) at 1st Ave east of Ellijay, GA.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Lat34North

location: Georgia

date listed: 12/16/2008

last visited: 8/22/2009

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Trail of TearsFort Butler, NC

in Trail of Tears

The last Fort in North Carolina before the Cherokee were moved to Tennessee camps. It also commanded the military district.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Thorny1

location: North Carolina

date listed: 9/20/2008

last visited: 9/13/2009

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Trail of TearsCherokee Co. Historical Museum

in Trail of Tears

The Cherokee Co. Historcial Museum is located in Murphy, NC

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member lilluckyclover

location: North Carolina

date listed: 9/15/2007

last visited: 6/22/2009

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Trail of TearsTrail of Tears Began Here

in Trail of Tears

It began here at the National Capital of the Cherokee Nation

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Sprinterman

location: Georgia

date listed: 11/18/2007

last visited: 4/15/2009

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Trail of TearsTrail of Tears Marker at New Echota

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Marker at New Echota Site

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Sprinterman

location: Georgia

date listed: 11/18/2007

last visited: 5/20/2009

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Trail of TearsThe Trail of Tears in Woodbury, TN-McMinnville Hwy

in Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears historical marker 2E-22 located in Woodbury Tn on McMinneville Hwy

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member haole122

location: Tennessee

date listed: 5/24/2008

last visited: 5/22/2008

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Trail of TearsChimney - All that's left of Fort Payne

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The Benge Route of the Trail of Tears started in a stockade at this location, the original Fort Payne.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member 8Nuts MotherGoose

location: Alabama

date listed: 6/13/2007

last visited: 11/24/2007

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Trail of TearsMajor Ridge House/ Chieftain's Museum

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One of the signers of the treaty agreeing to the removal of the Cherokee nation, Major Ridge owned a plantation and river ferry near what is now Rome, Georgia.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member queenofthehill

location: Georgia

date listed: 7/12/2008

last visited: 12/14/2008

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Trail of TearsHistoric Marker in Fort Payne, AL

in Trail of Tears

John Benge Route started in this town.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member 8Nuts MotherGoose

location: Alabama

date listed: 6/13/2007

last visited: never

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Trail of TearsChief John Ross Memorial Bridge

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A fancy new pedestrian footbridge over the Oostanaula River, near the site of Chief John Ross's home. Ross was chief of the Cherokee at the time of the Trail of Tears.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member queenofthehill

location: Georgia

date listed: 7/12/2008

last visited: 7/12/2008

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NW86.6 mi

Trail of TearsStones River and the Old Nashville Highway

in Trail of Tears

A national Battlefield along the trail of tears.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ar_kayaker

location: Tennessee

date listed: 5/29/2007

last visited: 9/4/2007

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Trail of TearsSixes Mill - Cherokee Co., GA

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Sixes Mill and the site of Fort Sixes, used as a Cherokee Removal Fort. Located north of Atlanta GA on Sixes RD, just west of I-575 in Cherokee County, GA.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Lat34North

location: Georgia

date listed: 10/10/2007

last visited: 10/10/2007

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Trail of TearsTrail of Tears Dane/Hood Overland Route

in Trail of Tears

A group of Cherokees camped near here on their forced march west.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member snfromky

location: Alabama

date listed: 10/7/2007

last visited: 10/7/2007

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