Rhodes Ferry - Vestiges of the Trail of Tears in Alabana
Decatur, AL
Little River Canyon. Image source: NPS / Matt Switzer
Rhodes Ferry was located at 100 Market St. NW, Decatur, AL 35601. Decatur “witnessed 2,300 Cherokee pass through in 1837 and 1838. They arrived here on steamboats and flatboats in cramped, inhospitable conditions that allowed diseases such as typhus to spread. Once docked at Decatur Landing, the Cherokee boarded cramped train cars. Their journey continued west by rail to Tuscumbia Landing.”
