Pottery Industry

Historical marker location:

Vale, North Carolina

( Marker is on West North Carolina 10 (State Highway 10) 0.2 miles west of Smith Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1988

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.