George H. White

Historical marker location:

New Bern, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (Business U.S. 70) and Metcalf Street, on the left when traveling east on Broad Street.)

Marker installed: 1976

1852 - 1918.

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.