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TO THE MEN MASSACRED ON GENERAL RUTHERFORD’S MARCH MEMORIAL

TO THE MEN MASSACRED ON GENERAL RUTHERFORD’S MARCH MEMORIAL
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Location: N. COLLEGE STREET AND EA STREET

City: NEWTON

State: North Carolina

Zip Code: 28613

Type of Memorial: Obelisks War Monument

Year Dedicated: 1897

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Photograph By: RUSTY LONG

Submitted By: DOCSOUTH.UNC.EDU/COMMLAND/

A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO WERE MASSACRED ON JOHNSON RIVER IN GEN. RUTHERFORD’S FORCED MARCH AGAINST THE CHEROKEE INDIANS IN 1776 AND TO PHILLIP FRY WHO ALONE ESCAPED
NOTE: THE CHEROKEE INDIANS WERE ALLIES OF THE BRITISH DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.


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