Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

Two wayside panels at the Trail of Tears Commemorative Park in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, tell of the removal parties who camped there, and of Chief White Path and Fly Smith, who died there.

In 1839 the last Cherokee detachment came down the Arkansas River by steamboat, and Quatie Ross, wife of Principal Chief John Ross, died near Little Rock. The Trail of Tears exhibit at North Shore Riverwalk Park.

At Cadron Settlement on the Arkansas River, Cherokee removed by water were stranded by low water and sickness; in 1834 more than 700 camped here for 16 days amid a cholera epidemic.