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Charleston was the site of the last Cherokee Agency as well as Fort Cass, the headquarters of the Cherokee Removal of 1838, known as the Trail of Tears. The valley between Charleston and Cleveland, Tennessee was filled for 12 miles with internment camps in which thousands of Cherokee from various towns waiting during the summer of 1838 for the start of the main trek west (Duncan 2003:261).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston%2C_Tennessee
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