Cornwallis

Historical marker location:

Riegelwood, North Carolina

( Marker is on Old Stage Highway (State Highway 87) just south of Cornwallis Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2010

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.