NASA Tracking

Historical marker location:

Rosman, North Carolina

( Marker is on U.S. 64, 0.1 miles south of Pickens Highway (U.S. 178), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2016

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.