Sunday March 24 Event Documentary Forgotten Tragedy: The Tuscarora War at WCM

On Sunday March 24th at 2p.m. G.M. Smith of Snow Hill will be showing his documentary Forgotten Tragedy: The Tuscarora War at the Wayne County Museum. Admission is free. The film documents the fall of the Tuscarora stronghold, Fort Neoheroka, in present-day Greene County. For three weeks in March of 1713, a force of colonial troops from South Carolina, along with members of several tribes including the Cherokee and Catawba, laid siege to the fort which held hundreds of Tuscarora men, women and children. In an effort to end the siege, the attackers set fire to the site. Hundreds died in the blaze and over 400 survivors sold into slavery. The site remains today as the single largest burial of Native Americans in North America. This tragedy was the beginning of the end of the Tuscarora in Eastern North Carolina. For more information please call the Wayne County Museum at (919)-734-5023.