Edward Warren

Historical marker location:

403 Main St, Columbia, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Business U.S. 64) and South Broad Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1941

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.