Part Three: Focus on Red Clay for 2022 Park and Recreation Month

 

Part three of a three-part blog series on the Park and Recreation Month guide

Red Clay State Historic Park was the site of the last capital of the Cherokee Nation in the eastern United States from 1832 to 1838 before the enforcement of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Eleven general councils were held between 1832-1837. Red Clay is where the Trail of Tears really began.  It was at Red Clay that the Cherokee Nation learned that they lost their mountain homeland forever.

The park encompasses 263 acres, including the Blue Hole spring, in Bradley County near Apison.

Find the page about Red Clay on the guide at  https://library.chattanoogastate.edu/parks2022/redclay