In the early nineteenth-century , Caldwell County witnessed the passage of the forced migration of the Cherokee to the West on the Trail of Tears during Indian removal . The Cherokee camped for several weeks in Caldwell County during the winter of 1838 , mainly at Big Springs , now in downtown Princeton ; at Skin Frame Creek , and in the Centerville area near Fredonia
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Caldwell County, Kentucky