The old Trail of Tears

 Following the trail once traveled by the Indians on Trail of Tears.  Starts at the Crittenden/Caldwell County line at the bridge. 

The old roadbed runs north west across country that casts the impression of land that had been long ago cleared for farming, to what is now known as the Campbell Cemetery. 

As the road then curved and took a more directly westward course past the old T. H. Stephenson (Nancy Tabor's home) and across present Highway 70 and the ICRR tracks 

past the old Cookseyville meeting house, now called Sulphur Springs Church. 

The road then reassumed its northwesterly course running over Clements Hill and through the beautiful View Valley and across Claylick Creek at the fork-off of the Wallace Ferry Road, now known as the Sisco Chapel Road. 

 It then followed the route of the road now call Salem-View Road over Childress Bluff to what is now the New Salem Church on Highway 60. It then followed the old Salem road which runs about a quarter of a mile north of Highway 60 to a SR 133 junction at the present main street of Salem .  It followed SR 133 through Lola, Joy, passed Mandy Falls and Mantle Rock (where the Indiana stayed) before traveling on to Berry's Ferry to cross over into Golconda.