Choctaw Line

Each treaty behind this line was signed under pressure. Doak's Stand, in October 1820, was negotiated by Andrew Jackson and Pushmataha and took about five million acres in exchange for western land. In September 1830 some six thousand Choctaw gathered at Dancing Rabbit Creek and several people spoke against leaving. Two days later a handful of leaders signed the removal treaty anyway. Nearly fifteen thousand of roughly eighteen thousand Choctaw were removed to Indian Territory over three years, and an estimated twenty-five hundred died of starvation and exposure on the way. About six thousand stayed in Mississippi and Alabama.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 16 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.

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