Gen. Allen Hal Turnage

Historical marker location:

3776 South Main Street, Farmville, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (Business U.S. 258) and East Church Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.)

Marker installed: 2015

1891-1971.

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.