Broomtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County , Alabama , United States . As of the 2010 census , its population was 182 . It was named after Chief Broom ( Broomstown ) of the Cherokee Nation , who occupied the area from the late eighteenth century into the 1830s . The Cherokee migrated southwest under pressure from European-American encroachment , before being driven out of the Southeast on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Broomtown, Alabama