Historical Marker

Carson House

Historical marker location:
1805 US 70W, Marion, North Carolina
( Marker can be reached from U.S. 70, 0.2 miles east of Lake Tahoma Road (North Carolina Highway 80), on the right when traveling east.)

"Horrid Blue Coats". Stoneman's Raid.

The first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare, was born in what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1587.