Swain County
9 places on the trail: 9 highway markers.
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
The young state, 1790-1860
- Q-14CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATIONEstablished by United States for Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after removal of 1838. (Reverse) (LEAVING) Established...
- Q-3TSALICherokee who resisted removal & escaped from U.S. troops; executed nearby, 1838. Story inspired Unto These Hills.
- Q-12YONAGUSKA ca. 1760-1839Chief of Oconaluftee Cherokee. He advocated temperance and opposed removal of his people from their homeland. Lived in t...
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Q-8DEEP CREEKSite of Union attack on Thomas’s Legion, Feb. 2, 1864. Reduced Cherokee support for Confederacy. One mile northeast.
- Q-58NIMROD JARRETT SMITH 1837-1893Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1880-1891. Led incorporation of Band & centralization of Tribal government on...
- Q-56THOMAS'S LEGIONWilliam H. Thomas led Confederate "Legion of Indians & Mountaineers." Cherokee companies raised nearby in 1862.