Situated approximately two miles south of a Trail of Tears route, A Place Where They Cried commemorates the hardships endured as a result of that tragic march. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek (Muscogee), Chicaasaw and Cherokee to migrate west from their lands as far east as Florida to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).

While addressing history and tragedy, the stone figures should also be viewed as witnesses to endurance and survival.