It was traversed by about 1,200 Cherokee led by John Benge in November 1838. The section of roadbed "possesses a strong sense of time and place from the period of the Trail of Tears of 1838."[2]
It preserves a section of the historic Renyoldsburg-Paris Road. The area includes a 1.3-mile section of intact road running from near the Tennessee River to Chestnut Hill Road. The boundaries include the entire roadbed and all of the property tracts associated with the road.[2]