Historical Marker

Rowan County Courthouse

Historical marker location:
Salisbury, North Carolina
( Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (U.S. 29) and W Council Street, on the left when traveling north on N Main Street.)

Escaped Destruction. Stoneman’s Raids.

In the 1960s, North Carolina was a center of the civil rights movement, with Greensboro being the site of the first sit-in protests in the country.