Brown Creek Soil Conservation District

Historical marker location:

Polkton, North Carolina

( Marker is on Andrew Jackson Highway (U.S. 74) 0.4 miles west of Boylin Road (North Carolina Highway 1420), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1962

First in America.

The famous Civil War battle of Fort Fisher, which took place in January 1865, was the largest naval engagement of the entire war.