Tuscarora War and Lord Granville Marker, Snow Hill

Tuscarora War and Lord Granville Marker, Snow Hill
Inscription: TUSCARORA WAR / FIVE MILES WEST OF SNOW HILL, MARCH / 20 – 23, 1713, THE INDIANS UNDER HANCOCK / SUFFERED THE SEVEREST BLOW EVER / EXPERIENCED BY THEM IN NORTH CAROLINA. / THE BATTLE VIRTUALLY ENDED THE TUSCARORA / WAR AND LED TO THE EMIGRATION OF / THE DEFEATED TUSCARORAS TO NEW YORK. / THIS STREET IN 1744 WAS THE / SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF / LORD GRANVILLE’S ONE- / EIGHT PART OF CAROLINA

Installation Date:

24 Mar 1928

Organization Responsible for Installation:

The Colonel Alexander McAllister Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution

Memorial War Era(s):

  • Other

Memorial Condition:

Average

Website:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/814

Location:

The memorial marker faces Southeast 2nd Street, a short distance from the intersection with N. Green Street and to the right of the Greene County courthouse in Snow Hill, NC.