In September 1838, more than 850 Potawatomi Indian people were rounded up and marched at gunpoint from their Indiana homeland along the Potawatomi "Trail of Death" route, which began in Indiana, crossed Illinois and Missouri, and ended at present day Osawatomie, Kansas. Many walked the 660-mile distance over two months, and more than 40 died, mostly children, from typhoid fever and the stress of the forced removal. On October 25, 1838, after marching from Carrollton, they encamped for a night on Snowden's farm near the village of Richmond before pressing on toward the Missouri River opposite Lexington.
