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Canton is the second largest town in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. It is located not quite 17 miles (27 km) west of Asheville and is share of that city’s metropolitan area. The town is named after the city of Canton, Ohio. The population was 4,227 at the 2010 census.

This Place was long contracted by succeeding native cultures. What is known as the archeological Garden Creek site, listed upon the National Register of Historic Places, is located upon the south side of the Pigeon River, approximately seven miles west of Canton. It was inhabited from 8000 BCE by successive cultures of native peoples. Villages were developed in the Middle Woodland (200-600 CE) and The Southeast Appalachian Mississippian culture ((1000 to 1450/1500 CE) periods. The Cherokee people are the most recent Native Americans to occupy this area, which is ration of their homelands in the western Carolinas, southeastern Tennessee, and northeastern Georgia. The Cherokee in Western North Carolina are known as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally attributed tribe.

The antediluvian peoples built a sum of four earthwork mounds at the site. Three have been excavated, the last two platform mounds in the 1960s prior to residential development.