Historical Marker
Andrew Carpenter House
Historical marker location:
Riverbend Township, North Carolina
( Marker is on Alexis Lucia Road, 0.8 miles west of Old Lowesville Road, on the right when traveling west.)
c. 1833.
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.