Siler City, N.C.

Historical marker location:

311 N 2nd Ave, Siler City, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of East 3rd Street (County Road 1107) and North 2nd Avenue, on the left when traveling east on East 3rd Street.)

Incorporated March 7, 1887. Collins Park.

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.