Nestled in the foothills of the Smokies and smack dab in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies Franklin, North Carolina ... was once a territory of the Cherokee people and later became ...

The ancient tools were inadvertently unearthed in 2021 by a bulldozer fighting a wildfire along a steep slope in western North Carolina ... that ignored the artifacts sometimes hidden on steep ...

Those artifacts and resources included everything ... The US Forest Service is overseen in North Carolina by Supervisor James Melonas. Ashcraft said he believes that many of the acts of ...

Cenci’s two passions coincided when a plethora of centuries-old items were found June 20 in the yard of Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where Cenci has served as ...