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Historical marker location:

1000 North Croatan Highway, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Croatan Highway (U.S. 158) and Wright Memorial Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

Wright Brothers National Memorial.

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.