Historical Marker
Upping Block
Historical marker location:
10500 Beaties Ford Road, Huntersville, North Carolina
( Marker can be reached from Beatties Ford Road north of Sample Road, on the right when traveling north.)
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.