Bartlett Yancey

Historical marker location:

Yanceyville, North Carolina

( Marker is on US Highway 158, 0.3 miles east of Hatchett Road, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1974

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.