Historical Marker
John Fletcher Bruton
Historical marker location:
Wilson, North Carolina
( Marker is on Nash Street North (State Highway 58) 0.1 miles north of Jackson Street West, on the left when traveling north.)
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.