Historical Marker
Elliott Daingerfield
Historical marker location:
224 Westglow Circle, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
( Marker is on Blowing Rock Highway (U.S. 221) north of Westglow Circle, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1986
1859-1932.
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.