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Trail of Tears Lecture this Sunday

 

FRIENDS OF SMYRNA LIBRARY SUNDAY LECTURE

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

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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."

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

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