Red Clay State Historic Park is a state park located in southern Bradley County, Tennessee, United States. The park preserves the Red Clay Council Grounds, which were the site of the last capital of t
Eternal Flame of the Cherokee Nation
A replica of the Council House at Red Clay State Park
The Blue Hole Spring, which was considered sacred to the Cherokees
A replica of a Cherokee farmstead showing a farmhouse, barn, and corncrib
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes", including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United S
Red Clay State Historic Park
…considered sacred to the Cherokees and includes the Blue Hole Spring, a large hydrological spring. It is also listed as an interpretive center along the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. After the Cherokee removal, the site became private land and was primarily used for agriculture. In the later part of the 20th century, a group of…
The Trail of Tears memorial at the New Echota Historic Site in Georgia, which honors the Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears
George W. Harkins, Choctaw chief
Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian
Seminole warrior Tuko-see-mathla, 1834