Malbourne A Angier

Historical marker location:

200 East Main Street, Durham, North Carolina

( Marker is on East Main Street west of South Roxboro Street (Business U.S. 70), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1925

1820 - 1900.

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.