Wartime Jail

Historical marker location:

36 Montford Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Montford Avenue and Hill Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Asheville's Prisons.

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.