Town Creek Indian Mound NC Historic Site

04/11/2026

There's a lot to see, do, and learn this weekend in Historic Halifax! You should make plans to check it out as we celebrate the !

It was truly an honor to have members of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe in attendance at the Historic Halifax ribbon cutting this week, as the land now known as Halifax held significance to the tribe long before the establishment of the town.

To start Day 2 of the Halifax Resolves Days event, all are welcome at a ceremony led by the tribe at the sacred site of Magazine Spring. The ceremony begins at 10 am today (April 11), serving as an important reminder of the presence and contributions of the Haliwa-Saponi, past and present.

📸: Members of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, including Chief Brucie Ogletree Richardson (center), with Historic Sites Director Michelle Lanier (right) attend the opening of the new visitor center. Photo by Linda Fox.

04/09/2026

Teachers of grades 4–8 are invited to apply for "Teaching on Native Land: Exploring the Living Histories of Indigenous North Carolina," a full day, place-based workshop at Morrow Mountain State Park and Town Creek Indian Mound NC Historic Site. Through immersive site visits, conversations with Indigenous scholars, and hands on teaching activities, participants will explore more than 13,000 years of human history embedded in the Uwharrie region while gaining strategies for presenting accurate, respectful, and culturally responsive Indigenous content in the classroom.

Attendees will receive a $100 stipend, .6 CEUs, private tours, access to new DNCR resources, and opportunities for ongoing collaboration.

Prospective participants can register at https://events.dncr.nc.gov/event/teachingonnativeland

NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources
North Carolina American Indian Heritage Commission
North Carolina Historic Sites

03/31/2026

Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site will be closed to the public on Friday, April 3rd in observance of the holiday.

The Site will reopen on Saturday, April 4th, 9am – 5pm.
Town Creek is closed to the public on Sundays & Mondays.

03/24/2026

03/24/2026

03/23/2026

On March 23, 1713, the Tuscarora Indian stronghold known as Neoheroka (or Nooherooka) fell to colonial militiamen. As a result of the action, 950 Indians were killed or captured.

The conflict was years in the making. As European settlers encroached on Indian land to meet the needs of the growing colony of North Carolina, tensions escalated between the two groups. In 1711 a war broke out between the Tuscarora and the colonists.

In 1713, the government of North Carolina appealed to South Carolina for assistance. That colony sent Colonel James Moore, who marched his combined force of North and South Carolina militia and allied Indians to Neoheroka. He had been informed that the Tuscarora tribe had placed its largest concentration of warriors at a fort there, on a branch of Contentnea Creek in what is now Greene County.

Archaeological investigations of the fort have revealed a series of interconnected bunkers and tunnels supplied by large quantities of provisions. The fort covered an acre and a half and had high palisades.

By the end of the Tuscarora War, about 200 whites and 1,000 Indians had been killed. An additional 1,000 Tuscaroras were sold into slavery, and more than 3,000 others were forced from their homes.

Marker located in Greene County, NC: https://www.dncr.nc.gov/blog/2023/12/14/nooherooka-f-37

03/20/2026

It was a great day for the start of a new season at Town Creek! Thank you to everyone who came out!

03/11/2026

Here's a new course being offered by the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC-Chapel Hill concerning the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Contact them for more info.

📚 New Course – Summer Session II

Join us for an immersive course exploring the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

Students will engage in:
• Focused discussions on NAGPRA’s legal and ethical foundations
• Collaborative activities on repatriation and collections care
• Hands-on work with NAGPRA-related collections at the Research Laboratories of Archaeology’s curation facility

The course also examines NAGPRA’s history, the 2024 revisions, and Indigenous perspectives on sovereignty, repatriation, and institutional accountability.

This course is taught with the consent of—and in active partnership with—sovereign Tribal Nations.

03/10/2026

Spring is springing in the Little River valley. Come check out some of the first wildlife along the nature trail to return from their winter break!