Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
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National Parks
Name Type1 Location Year authorized Size
acres (hectares)
Description
Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
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Trail of Tears National Historic Trail:
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Name Type1 Location Year authorized Size
acres (hectares)
Description
Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
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Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
Address:c/o American Indian Center of Arkansas
1100 N University, Suite 143
Little Rock, AR 72207
Phone:501-666-9032 - Phone
Fax:501-666-5875 - Fax
Web: www.nationaltota.org
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Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
Address:NPS National Trails System Office, Santa Fe
PO Box 728
Santa Fe, NM 87504
Phone:505-988-6888 - Phone
Fax:505-986-5214 - Fax
Web: www.nps.gov/trte
Established: 1987. Description:Two trail routes were used for the forced removal of more than 15,000 Cherokee Indians by the U.S. Army from their ancestral lands in the southeastern states to lands west of the Mississippi River in the late 1830s. Various detachments followed different routes west to the Oklahoma Territory. The journey lasted from June of 1838 to March of 1839 and thousands died along the way. Today, the designated trail follows: a water trail (1,226 miles) along the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, and Arkansas rivers; and an overland route (826 miles) from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Legth: 2,200 miles.
See other parks in New Mexico.