Historical Marker
MacPherson Church
Historical marker location:
3306 Raeford Road, Fayetteville, North Carolina
( Marker is on South MacPherson Church Road near Raeford Road (Business U.S. 401), on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1939
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.