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January 5, 1983. 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 ...
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 ...
Many crossed the Tennessee River at Blythe Ferry, in the southwestern part of Meigs County. [1] In June 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, the people of Meigs County were among the few in East Tennessee to vote in favor of Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession.
The body of a missing Meigs County, Tennessee, ... Thursday from the water in the area of the Blythe Ferry boat ... around 9:50 p.m. that he was taking a person to the Meigs County Jail, ...
Feb. 26—GEORGETOWN, Tenn. — A few hundred yards from the intersection of Tennessee State routes 58 and 60 in Meigs County lies the original roadbed of a portion of the Cherokee Trail of Tears ...
Location of Meigs County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Meigs County, Tennessee. 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 ...
A.A. Clingan, one of the family members, was Bradley County's first elected sheriff, serving from 1837 to 1838 and 1840 to 1846. The family of his wife, Martha Blythe, founded Blythe Ferry on the south side of the Tennessee River in Meigs County, Tennessee in 1809. The Clingan family cemetery, located on the western foot of the ridge off SR 60 ...
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