Location
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Coordinates: 35.2698, -83.1228.
Type: Sight
Tour: Cherokee
County: Jackson
Full
The coordinates point to a small parking lot on the east side of Highway 107. Turn your vehicle to face across the highway, parallel to Granite Cliff Drive, and you can see everything described at this location.
Context
Cherokees hoping to regain their lost lands continued to raid European-American settlements throughout the Revolutionary War, triggering military campaigns in response.
Situation
Cherokee
Despite continued tensions, residents of the isolated village of Tuckaseegee[1] probably were not participating in the attacks and felt protected by mountains few whites had traversed. They went about their daily lives.
Patriot
Col. John Sevier of the Washington County Militia Regiment, part of the Overmountain Men who won the Battle of King’s Mountain (S.C.), mustered a small force to punish the Cherokees by attacking their “Middle Towns” within the mountains. Washington County, part of N.C. at the time, was in today’s Tennessee. Sometimes the men are forced to dismount and lead their horses over the formidable mountain passes. The first town they reach is Tuckaseegee.
Date
March 1781 (exact date unknown).
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