Cherokee Removal Memorial Park
Birchwood

Cherokee Removal Memorial Park 
6800 Blythe Ferry Lane
Birchwood, TN 37308
423-334-5850
Wed-Fri 10-5
http://www.meigscountytnchamber.org/
tourism/cherokee_removal_memorial_
park.php

Phase I of the Park, the boardwalk and wildlife overlook shelters on top of the bluff, are complete and open year-round. When you visit the park, try to envision the nine encampments of the thousands of Cherokees that waited weeks to be sent across the river here at Blythe Ferry. Some were very sick and many with a sad heart at leaving their beloved homeland. Look up-stream to the island where just a few years earlier the young Sam Houston lived with the Cherokee and received his Indian name, The Raven. You might say this island was the "Mother of Texas."

Phase II of the Park is the Visitors Center and Cherokee Genealogical Library. Thanks to a federal grant secured by Congressman Zach Wamp, along with a Tennessee state committed grant, the Visitors Center is now open, though staffing fluctuates. The Cherokee Genealogical Library which will be developed at a later time.