Picture of Chattanooga

Picture of Chattanooga

Saturday, October 22, 2016

The Great Wall of Alabama

Kim and I walked almost 4 miles this morning then went to a Florence visitor center located near the marina where Kim found an item of interest. We borrowed the marina car, loaded Wally and Darcy Campbell in the back and headed for The Great Wall of Alabama. With the help of the young lady in our GPS app we found the great wall in the Alabama country side. We parked on a dirt road and as we walked up the driveway we saw several people sitting in a semi-circle, we were invited to join them. Tom Hendrix told the story of his g-g-grandmother walking back to this area from Oklahoma when she was 17 years old in the year 1844 or 45. She had been forced from the area along with all the other Indians in President Jackson's Indian Removal Act better known as the Trail of Tears.
Later in the evening we celebrated Darcy's birthday with champagne and homemade apple pie.

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