First English Colonies

Historical marker location:

Manteo, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from U.S. 64, 0.2 miles east of the William B. Umstead Memorial Bridge, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1935

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.