Port Royal State Historic Park
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Port Royal State Historic Park
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- Tours are available every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10:00AM and 1:00PM. The tour lasts approximately one hour.
- This tour takes visitors on a journey through Port Royal's history and explains the towns role in events that impacted the state and nation. Port Royal, once a thriving river port for Tennessee's tobacco trade, was center stage to multiple events that shaped not only Tennessee's future, but also the nation's.
- From Tennessee's settlement and early western migration to Cherokee Removal and the Black Patch Tobacco War, the town and people of Port Royal witnessed the highs and lows of the development of the United States we know today.
Follow Their Footsteps: The Trail of Tears at Port Royal
- Tours are available every Saturday and Sunday at 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM. The tour lasts approximately one hour.
- In 1838 the Federal government forcibly relocated Cherokees from their homeland. During that fall and winter, over 10,000 Cherokees passed through Port Royal on the northern route of the Trail of Tears. Join a Park Ranger to learn about Indian Removal and follow the Cherokees footsteps through Port Royal. Port Royal is part of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail