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Trail Creek Park

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Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Trail Creek Park
Phone:
+1 706-613-3991

Hours:
Sunday8am - 9pm
Monday8am - 9pm
Tuesday8am - 9pm
Wednesday8am - 9pm
Thursday8am - 9pm
Friday8am - 9pm
Saturday8am - 9pm


The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory. The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their new designated reserve, and many died before reaching their destinations. The forced removals included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee , Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Ponca, and Ho-Chunk/Winnebago nations. The phrase Trail of Tears originates from a description of the removal of many Native American tribes, including the infamous Cherokee Nation relocation in 1838.The Ho-Chunk Nation/Winnebago were surrounded with cannons ready, then forcibly removed at gunpoint. The first of five Trail of Tears for the Ho-Chunk Nation/Winnebago was to Iowa. Their fifth Trail of Tears culminated in Nebraska, at the current location of the Winnebago Reservation.Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee people were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the Southeastern United States, and relocated farther west. Those Native Americans who were relocated were forced to march to their destinations by state and local militias. The Cherokee removal in 1838 was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush. Approximately 2,000–8,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way.
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