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Blythe Ferry was a ferry across the Tennessee River in Meigs County, Tennessee, United States. In 1838, the ferry served as a gathering point and crossing for the Cherokee Removal, commonly called the Trail of Tears, in which thousands of Cherokee were forced to move west to Oklahoma from their homeland in the southeastern United States.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Meigs County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
The body of a missing Meigs County, Tennessee, sheriff's deputy has been found, officials said Thursday, hours after his patrol vehicle was pulled from the Tennessee River with the body of another ...
Meigs County Deputy Robert "R. J." Leonard, who had just joined the sheriff's office fresh out of the academy in December, responded to a call of a disturbance Wednesday night. According to ...
Hiwassee Island, also known as Jollys Island and Benham Island, is located in Meigs County, Tennessee, [1] at the confluence of the Tennessee and Hiwassee Rivers. It is about 35 mi (56 km) northeast of Chattanooga. [2] The island was the second largest land mass on the Tennessee River at 781 acres before the Tennessee Valley Authority created ...
Robert J. Leonard, a deputy with the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office, made a radio call Wednesday saying he was returning to the local jail with someone he had arrested, District Attorney Russell ...
In 1985, the Meigs County Family and Community Education ("FCE") Club began a large quilt to commemorate the early history of Meigs County as part of Tennessee's 1986 Homecoming celebrations. It includes images of fourteen sites representing the early history of Meigs County. The central quilt design, including a map to locate the sites represented, was made by the late Flossie Bennett, a ...
Cherokee Removal Memorial Park. Coordinates: 35°24′30″N 85°00′23″W. Entrance sign at Blythe Ferry Cherokee Removal Park. Cherokee Removal Memorial Park is a public park in Meigs County, Tennessee that is dedicated in memory of the Cherokee who were forced to emigrate from their ancestral lands during the Cherokee removal, in an event ...