MURFREESBORO — A pair of experts from MTSU’s
Center for Historic Preservation and the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage
Area will discuss the route of the Trail of Tears through Murfreesboro in a
special lecture set Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Amy
Kostine, who serves as Trail of Tears project historian at the Center for
Historic Preservation, and Leigh Ann Gardner, TCWNHA interpretive specialist,
will speak at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 27 at the Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and
Rutherford County.
The
center is located just off the Public Square in Murfreesboro at 225 W. College
St., and the free public lecture is part of Rutherford County’s annual
celebration of October as “Heritage Month.”
Kostine
and Gardner’s talk will focus on the Cherokee people’s route through Murfreesboro
when they were forced from their lands east of the Mississippi and relocated to
present-day Oklahoma as part of a “land exchange” under President Andrew
Jackson’s administration.
Kostine
will provide a general overview of the Trail of Tears, while Gardner will
address how Murfreesboro appeared in 1838, when the Cherokee passed through the
area, and what remains on the landscape.
Both
women are alumnae of MTSU’s public history program.
Attendees
are encouraged to bring their lunches to the free discussion, organizers said.
Copies of the Tennessee Trail of Tears brochure also will be available.
The
Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County is a partnership between
Main Street Murfreesboro, the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, the city
of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County Government. The facility is open to the
public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.
For more
information on activities at the Heritage Center, please call 615-217-8013 or
visit http://www.hcmrc.org.
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