Roanoke River

Historical marker location:

Rich Square, North Carolina

( Marker is on U.S. 258, 4.8 miles south of Chapel Hill Church Road (North Carolina Highway 1108), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1954

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.