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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Macon County, North Carolina
Adjacent to Macon County, North Carolina
▶ Cherokee County(22) ▶ Clay County(6) ▶ Graham County(9) ▶ Jackson County(9) ▶ Swain County(62) ▶ Rabun County, Georgia(13) ▶ Oconee County, South Carolina(63)
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On Phillips Street south of Main Street (Business U.S. 441), on the right when traveling south.
Beginning in 1758, South Carolina engaged in a four-year war with the Cherokee Indians, whose descendants now live in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. This war resulted from French efforts to incite the Southern Indians against the . . . — — Map (db m123225) HM
On West Main Street (State Highway 28) east of Macon Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Here stood Dixie Hall, the home of prosperous local merchant Julius T. Siler. A landowner and slaveholder. Siler joined the Confederate army along with about 3,000 other Macon County men and served as the captain of Company E, 6th North Carolina . . . — — Map (db m75472) HM
On Phillips Street at Stewart Street, on the right when traveling south on Phillips Street.
Long before the first settlers arrived here in 1818, this area teased explorers with hints of mineral wealth — especially gold, silver and copper. Not much interest was taken in Macon County's gemstones until a farmer turned up some strange . . . — — Map (db m123227) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 441) at Phillips Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
(front)
In memory of
The Sons of Macon County
who served in the
Confederate Army
during the
War Period
1861-1865
Co. H, 16th Regiment, N.C.T. Infantry
(side)
Co. I, 39th Regiment, N.C.T. Infantry
Co. E, . . . — — Map (db m75454) WM
On East Main Street (Business U.S. 441) at Nikwasi Lane, on the left when traveling east on East Main Street.
This mound marks site of old Cherokee town, Nikwasi. A council of Sir Alexander Cuming with the Indians here lead to a treaty, 1730. — — Map (db m3261) HM
On East Main Street (Business U.S. 441) at Nikwasi Lane, on the left when traveling east on East Main Street.
You are standing on land that has been part of a town for about three thousand years. This mound was the spiritual, political, and physical center of the Cherokee town of Nikwasi. A council house or town house on top of the mound held the sacred . . . — — Map (db m75523) HM
On Phillips Street at West Main Street (Business U.S. 441), on the right when traveling north on Phillips Street.
The North Carolina Bartram Trail is a hiking trail to commemorate the 1775 visit of Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram to Western North Carolina. Begun in the 1970s, the trail parallels Bartram's actual route into Cherokee country. It begins at . . . — — Map (db m123224) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 441) east of Macon Avenue.
Confederate Col. William H. Thomas organized Thomas’s Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers is western North Carolina in September 1862. The people of this area were sometime referred to as highlanders, and local residents called Thomas’s unit . . . — — Map (db m75455) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 441) at Iotla St (Local Highway 1323), on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
William Bartram Naturalist
Visited this area of the Cherokee Nation in May, 1775
while on his mission to record the natural
and cultural resources along the trading
route between the Low Country to the east
and the Overhill Country to . . . — — Map (db m123222) HM
On North 4th Street (U.S. 64) at Spruce Street, on the left when traveling north on North 4th Street.
Elizabeth Wright Prince House has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m156268) HM
On Main Street (County Highway 1603) at North 4th Street (U.S. 64), in the median on Main Street.
Moonshiners from Georgia laid siege to Highlands near here in 1885 to free arrested men. War ended peacefully with a threat and a prayer. — — Map (db m156232) HM
On Georgia Road (U.S. 441) 0.1 miles north of Mulberry Road, on the right when traveling north.
In the French and Indian War Col. Grant's force of whites, Chickasaws, and Catawbas defeated the Cherokee warriors near here, June, 1761. — — Map (db m73917) HM
On Georgia Road (U.S. 23/411) at Sam Seagle Road (County Route 1109), on the right when traveling south on Georgia Road.
In the French and Indian War, the Cherokees defeated a colonial and British force from N.Y. under Colonel Montgomery near here, June, 1760. — — Map (db m80208) HM
The 4015-acre basin below has been a world-famous forest and water laboratory since 1933. Here, a variety of forest cutting experiments have increased flow of pure water by almost a half million gallons per acre per year without increasing soil . . . — — Map (db m3260) HM
Philadelphia naturalist, author, exploring this area, met a Cherokee band led by their chief, Atakullakulla, in May 1776, near this spot. — — Map (db m57728) HM
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