Trail of Tears to be Recreated in Arkansas

Trees and grasses like those that members of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations saw when they stopped along a stretch of Coleman Creek may soon grow again at the site where the Indians rested during the Trail of Tears relocation.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Thursday started tearing down buildings on the five-acre site on the southeastern border of its campus. The buildings, including a former restaurant with pilings driven into the creek, are in the waterway's floodplain.