Trail of Tears
Page 3 of 10 — Showing results 21 to 30 of 95
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJBQ_john-gayle_Tuscaloosa-AL.html
He extended state laws into Indian lands and actively encouraged illegal white settlement there. A treaty with the Creek Indians in 1832 forced them to leave the state and resulted in nine new counties in east Alabama. Their "Trail of Tears" took the Indian…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJHV_trail-of-tears_Town-Creek-AL.html
Form the late 1700's to 1807 a Cherokee Chief named Doublehead guarded this area, that was claimed by both the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations as sacred hunting grounds against encroachment of white settlers.Chief Doublehead had the reputation of eating fles…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJI8_trail-of-tears_Waterloo-AL.html
Thousands of Cherokee Indians passed through Waterloo in the 1830s when they were forced by the U.S. government to move West on the "Trail of Tears". Most came by boat from Tuscumbia and camped here to await transfer to larger steamboats. During the encampm…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJIE_sacred-tears_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Panel 1Tuscumbia and much of the Shoals area played an integral part in the "Trail of Tears" with the Tennessee River route and the overland routes. In 1825, the U.S. Government formally adopted a removal policy, which was carried out extensively in the 183…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJVS_the-trail-of-tears-interpretive-center_Pulaski-TN.html
The Trail of Tears Interpretive Center Popularly known as the Rock Church, this beautiful chapel of Gothic architectural design was constructed by native limestone and was dedicated as the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on August 10, 1941. A signific…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJVT_the-bell-route_Pulaski-TN.html
Bell's Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, 1838-1839 OverviewThe detachment headed by John Bell differed from the parties under Cherokee Chief John Ross's supervision. Bell's detachment was composed of approximately 65…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJVU_the-benge-route_Pulaski-TN.html
John Benge's Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, 1838-1839John Benge led one detachment of approximately 1100 Cherokee with 60 wagons and 600 horses that left from Alabama on about September…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJVV_nunahi-duna-dlo-hily-i_Pulaski-TN.html
This sculpture is a small piece of theater, a tableau to engage the spectator in the heartbreak of the Cherokee walking west on the two routes of the Trail of Tears that crossed in Pulaski. Fear, suffering, survival, and resolve are expressed within the pos…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMJVX_giles-county-trail-of-tears-memorial_Pulaski-TN.html
"Long time we travel on way to new land...Womens cry... Children cry and men cry... but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep go towards West. Many days pass and people die very much."-Recollection of a survivor of the Trail of TearsThe Trail of…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMKA7_the-station_Dahlonega-GA.html
This is the site of one the forts or stations used by the United States Government in Cherokee country in 1838 to round up the Cherokee Indians for their removal to western reservations. General Winfield Scott, commander of the troops used to assemble and p…