Sherman's March

Historical marker location:

Dunn, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Long Branch Road and South Clinton Avenue (U.S. 301), on the left when traveling west on Long Branch Road.)

Marker installed: 1940

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.