For 27 years, thousands of motorcyclists join a multi-state parade for the Commemorative Motorcycle Ride for the Trail of Tears. The public is welcome to meet and greet the riders when they roll through Murphy about 11:15 a.m. Friday, Sept. 17, at the BP on U.S. 64 West, where riders will refuel and snack up.
Every third Saturday in September, cyclists line up in Cherokee to begin the five-day event. The route roughly follows the same path Native Americans were tragically forced to travel under the 1830 Indian Removal Act, which relocated Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
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