Belk Store

Historical marker location:

200 E South Main St, Waxhaw, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of East South Main Street (State Highway 75) and South Providence Street, on the right when traveling east on East South Main Street.)

Circa 1894.

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.