USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Tennessee Trail of Tears story is one of removal camps and detachment routes. Cherokee driven from their homes in Georgia and North Carolina arrived in Tennessee, where they waited to be organized into “detachments” to take them to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), a home they never wanted.

Detailed explanation-2: -The City of La Vergne, Tennessee holds a very rare and unique place in the history of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. La Vergne is geographically located between 2 documented segments of the National Historic Trail of Tears Northern Land Route.

Detailed explanation-3: -Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Map The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail passes through the present-day states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16, 000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma). The impact to the Cherokee was devastating.