Confederate Second Line

Historical marker location:

Dunn, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Bryant Road (State Highway 82) and W Thornton Road (State Highway 1783), on the left when traveling south on Bryant Road.)

Marker installed: 1961

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.