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For my topic Ross's Landing, there is already a page made so I have plans to extend this page and give it more detail. I would like to add some information on the history of why it is there, and what it's importance is. The article touches base on how Ross's Landing is based on the Trail of Tears, but I would like to give more info on that. I also would like to provide some information on some of the events that hace taken place there because Ross's Landing has a wide variety of them.

Rough Draft for Ross's Landing:

John Ross had moved to the south bank of Tennessee and made this area into his own trading post. This area is what became known as Ross's Warehouse, Ross's Ferry, or Ross's Landing. It was known to have the best conditions for a flatboat landing, making it better known than he originally planned. Later, in 1826 Ross sold his land to a Methodist minister, Nicholas Dalton Scales, so that he could move to Georgia to be closer to the political center of the Cherokee Indians. Soon after, Scales had given this land to a Colonel James White to secure a debt he had owed him. Eventually, the United States government took over all of the land the Cherokee Indians owned and started the removal of them from the banks of the Tennessee River. Ross’s Landing is known to have been an area that witnessed the beginning of this act known as the “Trail of Tears”. On June 6, 1838, over 1500 Cherokees were departed from Ross’s Landing in steamboats and barges. A final evacuation of Cherokees in the Fall of 1838 were forced to walk due to the levels of water in the river falling caused by a drought. This final march of the Cherokees claimed several hundred lives, including the wife of John Ross, Quatie.