John Motley Morehead

Historical marker location:

447 West Washington Street, Greensboro, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of South Edgeworth Street and West McGee Street, on the right when traveling north on South Edgeworth Street.)

Marker installed: 1936

1796-1866.

North Carolina has a rich African-American history, including the establishment of the first free black community in the United States, known as the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, during the Civil War.