Bertie Academy

Historical marker location:

Windsor, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Sterlingworth Street (State Highway 308) and Granville Street (U.S. 13), on the right when traveling south on Sterlingworth Street.)

Marker installed: 2012

North Carolina has a rich African-American history, including the establishment of the first free black community in the United States, known as the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, during the Civil War.