Trail of Tears
Oct 1, 2020 18:37:45 #
DonB
Loc: Port Royal , Tn
At Port Royal State Park, TN. There is about 200 yards of the original trail. The Cherokee rested for a few days here. The third photo is the Sulphur Fork River. Light green at the end of the water is the Red River. I was standing on an 1898 bridge. Neat little park.
Oct 1, 2020 18:47:03 #
Oct 1, 2020 19:01:12 #
Wanderer2
Loc: Colorado Rocky Mountains
A part of this nation's history of which we cannot be proud, and never should be forgotten. Thanks for posting this reminder.
Oct 1, 2020 19:12:11 #
Oct 1, 2020 19:19:54 #
DonB
Loc: Port Royal , Tn
Thanks all! Only second posting, just wanted to try out the new fiber we are hooked up to now. Yes, It was a sorry time in our history. This little park is off the beaten path but only 6 miles from I24. Today I saw one person there in the hour I spent.
Oct 1, 2020 19:21:21 #
Oct 1, 2020 22:14:48 #
Wanderer2
Loc: Colorado Rocky Mountains
I graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1967 and go back for reunions every 5 - 10 years. When I go back for the next one I shall make a point of visiting this site. Thanks again for posting it.
Oct 1, 2020 22:17:02 #
Oct 2, 2020 06:06:58 #
A very somber place. I don't think they had ILM back then. Indian lives Matter
Oct 2, 2020 06:40:44 #
Oct 2, 2020 07:55:42 #
Oct 2, 2020 08:05:27 #
DonB
Loc: Port Royal , Tn
JRiepe wrote:
Some of the trail is marked in Illinois also with those signs.
Same group, As I understand it, they marched from here to Gulcona, then across to the Mississippi and embarked on steamboats down river to the Red and up it into OK.
Oct 2, 2020 09:19:25 #
Some years back I visited a site in Illinois that was supposedly part of the trail. They had things pretty delineated and gave a history of the march. What a somber part of our national history.
Oct 2, 2020 10:03:41 #
ballsafire
Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana
Strange how names in history sticks -- INDIAN for example comes from Colombus' seach for the East by sailing west --- these native "Americans" aren't Indians but we continue to perpetrate this false idea. "Indians" should refer to the people native to India! I don't trust history books that much!
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