Trail of Tears Traditional Cache
copperhil: Breaks my heart to have to take down this one. It has so many favs but due to homeless people taking over the area it is no longer safe to hunt caches at this spot.
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Basically just a log and pencil and a couple of Indian figures for trading.
Long before it was Lebanon Road , it was the Trail of Tears that the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (sometimes referred collectively as the Five Civilized Tribes) travelled on their way to their new home in Indian Terriotry (present-day state of Oklahoma). This geocache is placed in their honor.
President Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, continued and renewed the political and military effort for the removal of the Native Americans from the Southeast when he signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Thus began the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations.
Many Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease and starvation en route to the destinations. Many died, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee.
I find it ironic that the Trail of Tears passes right next to The Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson.
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