Property
The 400 year plus of history have the Preserve and Center positioned on a 46 acres (19 ha) of land. The preserve also contains a 2-mile (3.2 km) walking trail, creek and many animals. It also lies on land that was previously owned by the Cherokee Indians in 1755. They were later forced off the land in 1830, later settling in Oklahoma traveling on the Trail of Tears.
Read more about this topic: Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center
Famous quotes containing the word property:
“You and I ... are convinced of the fact that if our Government in Washington and in a majority of the States should revert to the control of those who frankly put property ahead of human beings instead of working for human beings under a system of government which recognizes property, the nation as a whole would again be in a bad situation.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic, also.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)