"Bridle Creek"

Historical marker location:

Warrenton, North Carolina

( Marker is on U.S. 401, 0.2 miles south of Pet Burwell Road (State Highway 1604), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1959

In the 1960s, North Carolina was a center of the civil rights movement, with Greensboro being the site of the first sit-in protests in the country.