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Ross's Landing
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Ross's LandingRiverfront Parkway at Market Street, Chattanooga, TNGet directions →
A riverfront park in downtown Chattanooga marking the embarkation point of the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears — real, walkable history right on the water, easily paired with a downtown Chattanooga trip.
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Riverfront park in downtown Chattanooga. On June 6, 1838, over 1,500 Cherokee departed from here by steamboat and barge during the Trail of Tears removal — the last site of the Cherokee's 61-year occupation of Chattanooga, named for John Ross, later principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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National Park Service — Trail of Tears National Historic Trail