Pass through a replica stockade entrance into the park, once the site of Sugar Creek Mission. In 1838 900 Potawatomis were force marched 620 miles from their home in northern Indiana to the mission. The journey took 61 days, and during that time 39 Potawatomis, mostly children, died along what became known as the Trail of Death. In 1841 several nuns of the Sacred Heart order, including 72-year-old Sister Rose Philippine Duchesne, came to the mission to teach the children. Beyond the stockade entrance, the story of this tragic march and of Mother Duchesne is dramatically told through historical markers, memorials, pictures, and crosses. Mother Duchesne was canonized in 1988, the first female saint west of the Mississippi River.