Barringer Mine

Historical marker location:

418 W Church St, Richfield, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of West Church Street (U.S. 52) and State Highway 49, on the right when traveling west on West Church Street.)

Marker installed: 1999

The first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare, was born in what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1587.