William Rufus King

Historical marker location:

Newton Grove, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Hobbtown Highway (U.S. 701) and Cedar Point Road (State Highway 1845), on the right when traveling north on Hobbtown Highway.)

Marker installed: 1936

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.