Charleston was the site of the last Cherokee Agency as well as Fort Cass , the headquarters of the Cherokee Removal of 1838 , known as the Trail of Tears . The valley between Charleston and Cleveland , Tennessee was filled for with internment camps in which thousands of Cherokee from various towns waited during the summer of 1838 for the start of the main trek west ( Duncan 2003:261 )
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Charleston, Tennessee