Bodie Island Lighthouse

Historical marker location:

8180 Bodie Island Lighthouse Rd, Nags Head, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from Bodie Island Lighthouse Road, 1 mile east of State Highway 12, on the left when traveling south.)

Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

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.