Cornwallis

Historical marker location:

Gold Rock, North Carolina

( Marker is on State Highway 48, 0.1 miles south of Beasley Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1939

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.