Confederate Laboratory

Historical marker location:

Lincolnton, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Laboratory Road (County Highway 1238) and Massapoag Road & South Aspen Street, on the right when traveling east on Laboratory Road.)

Marker installed: 1989

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.