Rocky Mount, North Carolina
The region around the Tar River had several types of indigenous people for 12,000 years. It had been home to the historic Tuscarora people, who spoke an Iroquoian language, for a long time before the first Europeans arrived. After the English colonists and indigenous allies started the Tuscarora War in the early 1700s, they drove most of the survivors off to the North. The English speakers then began to settle the area.