Mount Lebanon AME Zion Church
Mount Lebanon AME Zion Church is the “oldest known black congregation in the Albemarle area.”
Slave Markets, Colored Troops, Freedman’s Bank and Exodusters
Today’s cityscape obscures the history that happened at this intersection between the 1830s and 1880s, but some clues remain in the historical markers...
Kingston Springs and the 12th USCT
As the Civil War began the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad (NNWRR) set aside plans to lay tracks west of Kingston Springs. After the Union seized...
McLemore House
Born enslaved about 1829, Harvey McLemore was bound to the white McLemore family until emancipation in 1865.
New Bern National Cemetery
Among the 6,500+ veterans buried in the New Bern National Cemetery are more than 404 United States Colored Troop (USCT) soldiers and an unknown number...
The Enslaved At Davies Manor
Before, during, and after the Civil War, African Americans played a vital — but until recent decades, unacknowledged — role in the workings of...