W. R. Odell

Historical marker location:

Concord, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Church Street NE (U.S. 601) and Buffalo Street NW, on the right when traveling north on Church Street NE.)

Marker installed: 1952

The first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare, was born in what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1587.