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Cherokee Removal Memorial Park @ Historic Blythe Ferry, Birchwood, TN

Blythe Ferry is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Blythe Ferry* is located at the northwest corner of the 1835 Cherokee Nation at the confluence of the Hiawassee River with the Tennessee River. In the fall of 1838 nine of the thirteen detachments under Chief John Ross‘ supervision, …