Daniel E. Rhyne / Laboratory Historic District

Historical marker location:

848 Southfork Rd, Lincolnton, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Laboratory Road (County Highway 1252) and Southfork Road, on the right when traveling north on Laboratory Road.)

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.