Smyrna Resident Andrea Searles gave a profusely illustrated
slide/talk on the topic, "The Dispossession of the Cherokee, 1829 to
1838."
Her informative talk focused upon the factors that led to
large-scale white penetration of North Georgia following the discovery of gold
there in 1828, and the forces, political, economic, and social, that culminated
in the forced removal of an estimated 15,000 Cherokee to the Trans-Mississippi
west in 1838, in an incident known to history as "The Trail of
Tears."
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