| Governor Pickens, dignitaries
and friendly Indians gathered for a feast and celebration
to honor him. In 1836 following
the second Creek war, the federal government signed
a Removal Act to move all Indians to Oklahoma. All Indians
were removed from their homelands, hence the Trail of
Tears was named. Fort Mitchell was the assembly point
for the Indian removal for our area.
Around the early 1900s, as a young
boy Peter Alexander Brannon walked through the area
of Fort Mitchell, finding Indian arrowheads and artifacts
which led to later archaeological surveys and digs
beginning in the 1970s and later in 2003.
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