Historical Marker
Pleasant Grove High School
Historical marker location:
3958 North NC Highway 49, Burlington, North Carolina
( Marker is on North NC Highway 49, on the left when traveling north.)
1922 - 1971.
The Cherokee Indians originally inhabited much of western North Carolina before being forcibly removed by the federal government in the 1800s. Today, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians still maintains a reservation in the western part of the state.