Marker: O-34 - TRYON'S MARCH

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Marker Text: Governor William Tryon, with a body of militia en route to survey the Cherokee boundary line, camped near this spot, June 7, 1767.

Essay:

Three markers were erected in 1951 to commemorate Governor William Tryon’s march with militia troops to survey the Cherokee boundary in 1767. It has since been discovered that the men went to South Carolina and did not camp anywhere near the present state boundary. The route in South Carolina passed about sixty miles south in the vicinity of present-day Honea Path. The marker in Cleveland County was removed in 1997 and the Rutherford County marker was removed the following year. Only the Polk County marker remains. It will be removed in the near future and the number reassigned.

References:
William L. Saunders, ed., Colonial Records of North Carolina, VII, 991-1009

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NC 9 at NC/SC boundary

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