Green River Plantation

Historical marker location:

6333 Coxe Road, Rutherfordton, North Carolina

( Marker is on Coxe Road (County Route 1005) 0.4 miles east of River Crest Parkway, on the left when traveling east.)

Unwelcome Guests. Stoneman's Raid.

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.