Historical Marker

Arthur Dobbs

Historical marker location:
Smithville, North Carolina
( Marker is on River Road SE south of Route 17, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2013

1689–1765.

The Cherokee Indians originally inhabited much of western North Carolina before being forcibly removed by the federal government in the 1800s. Today, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians still maintains a reservation in the western part of the state.
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