Soybean Processing

Historical marker location:

Elizabeth City, North Carolina

( Marker is on East Water Street (U.S. 17) near Mcmorrine Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1982

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.