James Melville Jones

Historical marker location:

5472 New Bern Hwy, Jacksonville, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of New Bern Highway (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2000

North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, in the early 1800s. The town of Charlotte was named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of England.