LAST -- Cherokee Camp on the Trail of Tears, Ft Smith AR
N 35° 23.097 W 094° 25.677
15S E 370305 N 3916669
A humble marker to a national tragedy marks the spot of the last encampment of the Cherokee Indians before they were forced onto their new lands in Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma) by the US Army.
Waymark Code: WMN7M7
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2015
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This simple marker is a stoic and understated monument to a horribly cruel forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia into Indian Territory in the 1830s. The marker reads as follows:
"THE TRAIL OF TEARS
This marks the last encampment of the Cherokee Indians on the "Trail of Tears" from their ancestral homes on the South to the land allotted to them in Indian Territory.
Erected as a civic service by the Noon Civics Club, 1936"
For more on the Cherokee experience on the Trail of Tears, see here: (
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