Picket's Charge

Historical marker location:

Taylorsville, North Carolina

( Memorial is at the intersection of West Main Avenue (State Highway 90) and South Center Street (County Highway 1605), on the left when traveling west on West Main Avenue.)

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.