National Register of Historic Places

Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site

Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina
Listed
August 16, 1982
Type
Site
Period
Pre Contact
Ref No.
82003443

About this property

The Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site is a prehistoric and historic archaeological site on Town Creek near its confluence with the Hiwassee River within the boundaries of present-day Hayesville, North Carolina. The site encompasses the former area of the Cherokee village of Quanassee (also spelled Qunassee on a 1725 colonial map) and associated farmsteads. The village was centered on what is known as Spikebuck Mound, an earthwork platform mound, likely built about 1,000 CE by ancestral indigenous peoples during the South Appalachian Mississippian culture period. Quanassee was known by the English in the colonial period as one of the historic Cherokee "Valley Towns". At one time, it had a population of several hundred, but by 1721 had declined, in part because of the Creek-Cherokee War (c. 1716–1752). It was razed at the beginning of the American Revolution by state militias during the Rutherford Light Horse expedition of fall 1776, because the Cherokee were allied with the British when colonial rebels launched the war. The area was known as Quanassee into the early 1800s. Most of the Cherokee were forcibly removed from North Carolina and the Southeast. The mound and village site was listed as an archeological site on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Location

Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina

Categories

PREHISTORICHISTORIC - ABORIGINAL
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site listed on the National Register?

Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1982.

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Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site is recorded as the pre_contact era.

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