The day the Lumbees ran the KKK out of Robeson County
MAXTON — North Carolina’s 1,601st historical highway marker commemorates the Lumbee Tribe driving the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in 1958.The Robesonian reports the Battle of Hayes Pond sign was dedicated Thursday, during the 50th Annual Lumbee Homecoming. Robeson County’s 16th historical roadside marker honors the confrontation between the Lumbee and Klansmen who showed up for a rally on a January day 60 years ago. The outnumbered Klansmen fled in the face of […]
