Historical Marker
Leonard Henderson
Historical marker location:
7239 NC-39, Williamsboro, North Carolina
( Marker is on State Highway 39, ½ mile south of Stagecoach Road (County Road 1329), on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1986
1772 - 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.