Captain Johnston Blakeley

Historical marker location:

Pittsboro, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 87 and East Perry Road/Chicken Bridge Road, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 87.)

Marker installed: 1937

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.