Park & outdoors
Cherokee Removal Memorial Park
Where the Trail of Tears crossed the Tennessee.
At historic Blythe Ferry, thousands of Cherokee crossed the Tennessee River in 1838 on the forced removal west. The memorial park marks that crossing with a wall recording 2,535 heads of household from the 1835 census, an overlook, and interpretive exhibits.
The setting is the Hiwassee-Tennessee confluence, whose refuge flats draw thousands of wintering sandhill cranes. Solemn history and one of the Southeast's great wildlife spectacles share the same ground.
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