Trail of Death

On September 15, 1838, about 860 Potawatomi Indians camped near here on the forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. They had to camp by a dirty stream. Two small children who died on the trek from Williamsport were buried at ...

Trail of Death

September 10, 1838

Here at Chief Winamac's old village, about 900 Potawatomi Indians camped on their forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. A child and a man died here during the encampment. They also left behind 24 too sick to ...

Potawatomi - A Trail of Death

Sandusky Point Encampment

Potawatomi

A Trail of Death

Sandusky Point Encampment

September 17 - 20, 1838

This marker dedicated September 21, 1993

by descendants of the Patawatomi who were forcibly removed from Indiana and marched to Kansas in 1838.

Marker is on North Paris Street, on the ...