Historical Marker
Boulders' House Lighting Project
Historical marker location:
390 S Liberty St, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
( Marker is on Brookstown Avenue just west of Old Salem Road, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2016
Old Salem Museums & Gardens. Salem, NC, 1766-2016.
North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, in the early 1800s. The town of Charlotte was named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of England.