An improved, more user friendly Mantle Rock Preserve and mile-long hiking trail along the historic Trail of Tears will be unveiled next week near Joy in rural Livingston County.
The National Park Service, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, has designed new exhibits that highlight the rarity and wonderment of sandstone glades and native prairie habitats, while portraying the hardships of the Cherokee experience in the Mantle Rock area during their forced migration to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
The public is invited to see the new exhibits and walk the same path that the Cherokee walked that bitterly cold winter of 1838-1839 during a ceremony at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22. Mantle Rock Preserve is located on Ky. 133 between Salem and the Ohio River’s Berry’s Ferry Landing.
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