Brookstown United Methodist Church

Historical marker location:

Pfafftown, North Carolina

( Marker is on Yandkinville Road, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2011

Established 1853.

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.