Patterson-Dodson House

Historical marker location:

11921 Academy St, Milton, North Carolina

( Marker is on Academy Street (State Highway 62) just south of Broad Street (State Highway 62), on the right when traveling south.)

c. 1850.

architecture houses residential buildings

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.