Initial Point Qualla Indian Boundary Survey - Maggie Valley, NC
N 35° 29.742 W 083° 09.386
17S E 304400 N 3930154
Disk marking the initial point of the survey establishing The Qualla Boundary.
Waymark Code: WMF81W
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2012
Views: 18
Bronze disk in the top of a concrete post located on US 19 at Soco Gap southwest of Maggie Valley and south of where the Blue Ridge Parkway crosses U S 19. The benchmark is located about 10' from US 19 and is adjacent to a historical marker named "Qualla Boundary". The concrete post is marker "QIB".
Monumentation Type: Concrete post
Monument Category: Initial Point
Accessible to general public: yes
Historical significance:
The Qualla Boundary, the official name for the Cherokee Indian Reservation in western North Carolina, was officially surveyed and its present boundaries were established in 1876. The tract owed its creation to the alliance and efforts of the Cherokee people and to William Holland Thomas, the white Cherokee chief. Thomas pruchased lands for the Cherokee people under his name in the 1840s and 1850s, and in 1866 the United States recognized the right of the Cherokee to own and control the lands. Ten years later, the land was surveyed and demarcated as Cherokee land, outside of federal and state government jurisdiction.
http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?ct=ddl&sp=search&k=Markers&sv=P-7 - QUALLA BOUNDARY
County: Haywood County, NC
USGS Quad: Sylva North
NGS PID: FB1570
Approximate date of monument: 01/01/1934
Monumentation Type (if other): Not listed
Monument Category (if other): Not listed
Explain Non-Public access: Not listed
Monument Website: Not listed
Other Coordinates: Not Listed
Other Coordinates details: Not listed
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