Cave Spring - Vestiges of the Trail of Tears in Georgia
Cave Spring, GA
Image source: Google Earth.
The original Cherokee-era road from Cave Spring to Rome is generally the same as U.S. Hwy. 411, heading north toward Rome, past a canoe / kayak rental business on Big Cedar Creek (N 34’07.882 / W 85’18.618), through the scenic Vann’s Valley, and right up to the intersection with Vann’s Valley Road (N 34’10.447 / W 85’12.728), which the original road appears to follow to the north. Cherokee improvements (mostly corn fields and the like) were located all along this road. Appropriately enough, long stretches of Hwy. 411 in this area are still corn fields today.
Vann's Valley Road runs for just a short segment before connecting with Hwy 1/411. This was the railroad community of Six Mile. Approximately a mile north at the intersection of Walker Mountain Rd, Cave Spring road veers off to the left, following Silver Creek into Rome and Camp Scott.
SOURCES:
https://www.gluseum.com/US/Cave-Spring/127144113995707/Historic-Cherokee-Vann-Cabin
http://simmonsplantation.weebly.com/news
[1]https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/upload/TRTE-Cave-Spring-two-panels-combined.pdf
[2] Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, Wednesday, February 10, 1830.
[3] https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn84025807/1830-03-02/ed-1/seq-2/#fbclid=IwAR1D-4_gYVDrrUiRwo-hU_4Kq2_hfZQzt8Hw-2Uf28DugmljKdnkvrZc6b8
http://trailofthetrail.blogspot.com/2010/08/driving-tour-trail-of-tears-from.html
https://www.gluseum.com/US/Cave-Spring/127144113995707/Historic-Cherokee-Vann-Cabin
http://simmonsplantation.weebly.com/news
[1]https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/upload/TRTE-Cave-Spring-two-panels-combined.pdf
[2] Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, Wednesday, February 10, 1830.
[3] https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn84025807/1830-03-02/ed-1/seq-2/#fbclid=IwAR1D-4_gYVDrrUiRwo-hU_4Kq2_hfZQzt8Hw-2Uf28DugmljKdnkvrZc6b8
http://trailofthetrail.blogspot.com/2010/08/driving-tour-trail-of-tears-from.html