Fort Neoheroka

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Fort Neoheroka is the name of a stronghold constructed in what is now modern day Greene County, North Carolina by the Tuscarora tribe during the Tuscarora War of 1711-1715. In March of 1713, the Fort was laid siege to and ultimately attacked by a colonial force consisting of Yamassee and Cherokee Indians from neighboring South Carolina. Led by Col. James Moore, the 1713 siege lasted for more than three weeks, from around March 1, 1713 to March 22nd. Hundreds of men women and children were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the Fort. Approximately 170 more were killed outside the fort while approximately 400 were taken to South Carolina where they were sold into slavery. The defeat of the Tuscaroras, once the most powerful Indigenous nation in the North Carolina Territory, opened up North Carolina’s interiror to further expansion by European settlers. The supremacy of the Tuscaroras in the state was broken forever.