United States Post Office

Historical marker location:

680 West King Street, Boone, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from West King Street (U.S. 321) east of Linney Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Boone, North Carolina.

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.