Collett Leventhorpe

Historical marker location:

Lenoir, North Carolina

( Marker is on State Highway 268, ½ mile east of Holly Lodge Place, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1951

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.