Allen House

Historical marker location:

423 East Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road, Snow Camp, North Carolina

( Marker is on East Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road, on the left when traveling east.)

Circa 1780.

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North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, in the early 1800s. The town of Charlotte was named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of England.