Stanley Winborne

Historical marker location:

Murfreesboro, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (Business U.S. 158) and North Fourth Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.)

1886-1966.

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.