Clyde R. Hoey Building

Historical marker location:

1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, North Carolina

( Marker is on Brant Street east of Fayetteville Street, in the median.)

1929. Historic Preservation Society of Durham.

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.