John Coltrane

Historical marker location:

Hamlet, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street (U.S. 74) and Bridges Street, on the left when traveling west on Spring Street.)

Marker installed: 1992

1926-1967.

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.