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Fort Cass

1830s in Tennessee1835 establishments in Tennessee19th-century Cherokee historyBuildings and structures in Bradley County, TennesseeCharleston, Tennessee
Forced migrations in the United StatesForts in TennesseeInternment camps in the United StatesMilitary history of TennesseeNative American history of TennesseeTrail of Tears

Fort Cass was a fort located on the Hiwassee River in present-day Charleston, Tennessee, that served as the military operational headquarters for the entire Cherokee removal, an forced migration of the Cherokee known as the Trail of Tears from their ancestral homelands in the Southeast to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Fort Cass housed a garrison of United States troops who watched over the largest concentration of internment camps where Cherokee were kept during the summer of 1838 before starting the main trek west to Indian Territory, and served as one of three emigration deports where the Cherokee began their journey west, the others of which were located at Ross's Landing in Chattanooga and Gunter's Landing near Guntersville, Alabama.

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Fort Cass
Market Street Northeast,

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