PEP Talk: GA Association of the Trail of Tears

In 1996, Georgia established a state-wide chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, ten years after the country identified the official trail, which began in Chattanooga and stretched to the west. This definition of the Trail of Tears failed to include Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. In 2006, the Trail of Tears Association was able to correct the error. 

Even today, Georgia has a great number of locations that have yet to be identified as viable preservation sites. "Any time I pass a [structure] that's covered over with asphalt shingles, I want to go rip it off because I know there's a cabin underneath that probably dates to the Cherokees," exclaims Leslie Thomas, president of the Georgia Association of the Trail of Tears.###

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