Saturday, March 23, 2013

Forgotten Tragedy: The Colonial Tuscorora War

From the March 21, 2013, Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus.

This Sunday, March 24th, the Wayne County Museum in Goldsboro, NC, will be showing G.M. Smith's documentary "Forgotten Tragedy: The Tuscarora War."

It is about the fall of the Tuscaroran stronghold of Fort Neoheroka in present day Greene County.  For three weeks in March of 1713, a force of Colonial South Carolina troops and members of the Cherokee and Catawba tribes laid siege to the fort which held humdreds of Tuscaroran men, women and children.

The fort was set on fire and hundreds died while the remaining 400 were sold into slavery.

The site today remains as the single largest burial site of Indians in North America and marked the beginning of the end of Tuscaroran power in eastern North Carolina.

A Bit of History I'm Unfamiliar With.  --Cooter

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