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By Mark Hilton, September 1, 2015
Nearby Trail of Tears park
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville — 1042 — The Trail of Tears —  |
| A camping ground, Oct. 1838, for a part of the Cherokee Indians who were forcibly moved from their homes in the Smoky Mountain region of N. Car. and Tenn. to Indian Terr., now Okla. Badly clothed and fed, hundreds became ill and many died, among . . . — — Map (db m88883) HM | |||
| 2 ► Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville — Trail of Tears Indian Camping Grounds — |
| In 1838 this lot, then in woods, was used as camping grounds for 13,500 Indians removed along this route from the southern states to Oklahoma, in detachments of 1500. Among those who died in camp were two noted Cherokees Chief . . . — — Map (db m88886) HM | |||