Historical Marker
Potter House
Historical marker location:
Jamestown, North Carolina
( Marker is on West Main Street east of Lennox Drive, on the right when traveling east.)
c. 1819.
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.