Tryon County

Historical marker location:

2577 Tryon Courthouse Rd, Bessemer City, North Carolina

( Marker is on Tryon Courthouse Road (State Highway 274) 0.1 miles south of Tryon School Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1949

In the 1960s, North Carolina was a center of the civil rights movement, with Greensboro being the site of the first sit-in protests in the country.