Historical Markers in Rutherford County, North Carolina
Ayr
Barbara T. Meliski Park
Bechtler's Mint
Brittain Church
Chimney Rock
Elisha Baxter
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Forest City
Forest City Confederate Memorial
Fort McGaughey
Get Up Bell
Gilbert Town
Green River Plantation
Hickory Nut Gorge
James Adair
Joshua Forman
North Carolina / South Carolina
Old Cool Springs Cemetery
Police Memorial
Potts Fort
Raleigh Rutherford Haynes / Simpson Bobo Tanner
Rev. James Milton Webb
Rutherford County
Rutherford County Memorial
Rutherford Trace
Rutherfordton
Rutherfordton Confederate Monument
St. John's Episcopal Church
Stoneman's Raid
The High Shoal Ironworks Village
Town of Burnt Chimney
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.