Historical Marker
Shallotte
Historical marker location:
4807 Main St, Shallotte, North Carolina
( Marker is on Main Street (Business U.S. 17) south of Mulberry Street, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1995
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.