Mechanic's Hill

Historical marker location:

150 S Middleton St, Robbins, North Carolina

( Marker is on South Middleton Street (State Highway 705) south of Horner Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1958

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.