Trail Of Tears circa 1838

Trail Of Tears circa 1838 is a Tennessee historical marker in WHITE COUNTIES, Van Buren County.

Van Buren Co., .25 Mile South of Highway Marker 3 on the East side of Hwy. 111 in Southern Van Buren Co. 2 C25 Camp Forrest Van Buren Co., Hwy 111, east side Spencer Artillery Range 25 miles South of Mile Marker 3. HISTORICAL MARKER INVENTORY CLAY, DeKalb, JACKSON, OVERTON, PUTNAM, WHITE COUNTIES

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On October 20, 1837, B. B. Cannon with a group of 365 treaty party Cherokees camped near here on their way to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Rainey’s Turnpike crossed here at the old John Fleming farm and in 1838 was one route used for the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians known as the “Trail of Tears.”

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1832 · Kentucky (Finley, 1832) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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