As we continue on the Trail of Tears, after traveling north for so long, we now turn west and south again. Many signposts will be coming every few miles.
Camp Pope allowed the Choctaw to stop, rest, and resupply.
McHenry’s Farm sold passing Indians food and supplies and three groups of Choctaws camped there. The place was still there when the Chickasaw Removal followed a couple of years later.
In December of 1831, like today, an Arctic blast was descending through the countryside. Can you imagine hiking a muddy, slick, swampy road short on promised food? It definitely was a struggle, one so hard to relate to as I walk inside my warm house, too much food ready at hand!
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