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Indian Museum of Carolinas Dr. David McLean was a missionary in Africa for twenty-five years before he returned to this country to teach anthropology at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg. Once back in North Carolina, he took an avid interest in the Indians who formerly had lived in the area. He began collecting Indian artifacts and came to be able to tell from any artifact which tribe had made it and in which period. He bought some artifacts, traded African artifacts for others, and some were given to him. As his collection grew over a period of twenty years, he began thinking of building a museum to house it. He opened it in 1968. The museum includes not only artifacts but dioramas showing how Indians of the Southeast lived. Dr. McLean died in 1980, but his museum at 607 Turnpike Road is still open.
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