Topics Related to Macon County

Battle of Echoe (QQ-1)

Location: US 441 Business (Main Street) in Franklin
County: Macon
Original Date Cast: 1964

Large rectangular marker, with map inset, and extended text as follows:

Mary Lapham 1860-1936 (Q-60)

Physician; innovator in treatment of tuberculosis. Served in Europe, WWI; operated a sanatorium here, 1908-1918.

Thomas Harbison 1862-1936 (Q-55)

Botanist and educator. Pioneer in the study of flora, southeastern U.S. Highlands his base after 1886; taught here.

Silas McDowell 1795-1879 (Q-50)

Botanical and historical writer; horticulturist. Originated concept of a temperate "thermal belt." Home stood 1/5 mi. W.

Cowee (Q-39)

Principal settlement of the Cherokee Middle Towns. Council house stood on mound 300 yds. S. Town destroyed during the Revolution.

Pottery Clay (Q-36)

Wedgwood potteries, England, used several tons of clay taken in 1767 from a nearby pit by Thomas Griffiths, a South Carolina planter.

Andre Michaux (Q-17)

French botanist. First visit to North Carolina to study flora was June, 1787, when he traversed the Highlands Plateau.

Nikwasi (Q-9)

This mound marks site of old Cherokee town, Nikwasi. A council of Sir Alexander Cuming with the Indians here led to a treaty, 1730.

Cherokee Defeat (Q-7)

During the American Revolution, S.C. forces under Colonel Andrew Williamson defeated the Cherokees, nearby, at the “Black Hole,” Sept. 1776.

Cherokee Victory (Q-6)

In the French and Indian War, the Cherokees defeated a colonial and British force from N.Y. under Colonel Montgomery near here, June, 1760.