John W. Thomas

Historical marker location:

Thomasville, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Cedar Lodge Road and Cedar Drive, on the right when traveling east on Cedar Lodge Road.)

Marker installed: 1987

1800-1871.

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.