Stoneman's Raid

Historical marker location:

Lenoir, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Norwood Street Southwest and Pennton Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Norwood Street Southwest.)

Marker installed: 1940

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.