Mackeys Ferry

Historical marker location:

Mackeys, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Mackeys Road (State Highway 308) and Mackeys Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east on Mackeys Road.)

Marker installed: 1999

1735-1938.

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.