Moses A. Curtis

Historical marker location:

148 N Churton St, Hillsborough, North Carolina

( Marker is on North Churton Street (U.S. 70) south of East Tryon Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1955

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.