Trail of Tears Lecture

FRIENDS OF SMYRNA LIBRARY SUNDAY LECTURE

"The Dispossession of the Cherokee, 1829 to 1838"
Sunday, September 8
3:00-4:00 p.m.

Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room
100 Village Green Circle
Smyrna GA  30080
770-431-2860

Speaker: Andrea Searles, Smyrna Resident and Researcher

 
Ms. Searles' talk will focus upon the factors that led to large-scale white penetration of North Georgia after 1828, and the forces, political, economic, and social, that culminated in the forced removal of 15,000 Cherokee to the Trans-Mississippi west in 1838---in an incident known to history as "The Trail of Tears."

The "First Sunday" lecture series is held in the Smyrna Public Library Meeting Room and is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.