Yeopim

Historical marker location:

Shawboro, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Indiantown Road and Shortcut Road (U.S. 158), on the left when traveling south on Indiantown Road.)

Marker installed: 1992

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.