The site witnessed 8,000 Cherokee travelling along the Northern Route during 1838-39 as part of the Trail of Tears . Fitzgerald was mentioned in the journals of both B.B. Cannon and Dr. William Isaac Irvins Morrow , two members of a military escort taking a small group of Cherokee who were willingly relocating per the Treaty of New Echota
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Fitzgerald Station and Farmstead