For nine of the 17 Cherokee detachments (an estimated 9,000 - 10,000 people), Blythe Ferry was the final point of departure from their ancestral lands. The river crossing was slow, and Cherokee encampments along the river grew as some groups waited up to two months for their turn to cross the rive...
Sequoyah (George Gist), inventor of the Cherokee syllabary (writing system) was born circa 1776 at the village of Tuskegee, which was very near where the Museum is today. His father was Nathaniel Gist, a Virginia fur trader. His mother was Wut-teh, daughter of a Cherokee Chief. Location: The Sequoy...
William Blythe and his Cherokee wife, Nannie Fields, established one of the first permanent ferries on the eastern Tennessee River around 1809. By the early 1800s, Blythe’s Ferry marked the northwestern boundary of Cherokee lands. During the forced removal of the Cherokee in 1838, Blythe Ferry too...
Being situated at an important junction of roads and rivers, Port Royal became the only stop in Tennessee on the "Great Western Road" stagecoach line between Nashville, Tennessee, and Golconda, Illinois. Port Royal is designated as an official site on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Duri...
Red Clay State Park was the site of the final council meetings before the removal. Blue Hole Spring, a natural landmark in the park, was used by the Cherokee for their water supply during council meetings. Location: The park’s address is 1140 Red Clay Park Road SW near Cleveland in Bradley Count...
Cherokee leader John Brown, who owned 640 acres in this area, ordered the construction of Browns Ferry Tavern in 1803. By the 1830s, Brown’s land formed the boundary of the Cherokee Nation. The road running past this structure was the route, in 1838, by which several Cherokee detachments were remo...
In 1838 the U.S. Army implemented a federal government policy to remove American Indians from their homelands in the southern Appalachian Mountains to facilitate settlement by whites. The Cherokees were driven from their homes into stockades scattered throughout Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Nort...
Audubon Acres, also known as the Elise Chapin Wildlife Sanctuary, contains 120 acres of natural preserve along the Chickamauga Creek. A log cabin on the property known as "Spring Frog Cabin" is said to have been the home of Drowning Bear, a Cherokee full blood who was removed on the Trail of Tears. ...
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions developed the site originally as a mission within the Cherokee Nation. The property, buildings, and improvements were purchased from John McDonald, the grandfather of Cherokee Chief John Ross. The mission was the principal mission among other,...
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