Historical Marker
Alexander Dickson House
Historical marker location:
150 E King Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina
( Marker is at the intersection of E King Street and S Cameron Street, on the right when traveling east on E King Street.)
Ca. 1790.
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.