The Historic Brookstown Inn

Historical marker location:

200 Brookstown Ave, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from Brookstown Avenue Southwest just west of Factory Row, on the left when traveling west.)

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.