Cherokee Internment Forts for The Trail of Tears

Many Cherokee and the aggressors kept journals, wrote letters and told the stories of the events. This site and our book, "Yea Though I Walk Through" tells the story on their own words.

Cherokee Removal Forts

Internment Forts in Georgia

Internment Forts in Tennessee

Internment Forts in Alabama

Internment Forts in North Carolina

Internment Forts in South Carolina

Internment Forts in Oklahoma

Fort Coffee:

Fort Gibson:

Fort Smith:

Fort Towson:

Sources:
Adapted from https://www.nps.gov/fosm/learn/historyculture/storiestrailoftears.htm
https://www.nps.gov/trte/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~itcherok/history/forts-removal.htm