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Dan

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27. Nice !

Reply to 70sEraVet (Reply #22)

Fri Feb 28, 2025, 04:37 PM

Feb 28

Our School House was built on land that my family donated to the community back in the thirties or forties…who remembers. Once they integrated the school system the property became city property and now (from what I have been told) is used to store boats or something.

Thanks for sharing the picture and history.

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A White man's awakening [View all] 70sEraVet Feb 28 OP

Good Work!!!! Karadeniz Feb 28 #1

Thank you for posting this. jrthin Feb 28 #2

Thank you for doing this. LoisB Feb 28 #3

So many things we whites never even think of, or that we were never taught, like obits in the paper. CrispyQ Feb 28 #4

Unfortunately, this is "somewhat" true for Blacks. Dan Feb 28 #5

Just curious, Dan -- 70sEraVet Feb 28 #6

Small Town Dan Feb 28 #10

My town is VERY small -- population 300 70sEraVet Feb 28 #22

Nice ! Dan Feb 28 #27

My apologies, Dan, for maybe sticking my nose where it doesn't belong.... 70sEraVet Feb 28 #28

No harm, no foul. Dan Feb 28 #29

Just wow JMCKUSICK Feb 28 #7

Thanks much. 70sEraVet Feb 28 #9

I've tried tracing the slaves that were named in old family wills chowder66 Feb 28 #8

Wow! 70sEraVet Feb 28 #11

I don't think it said "in perpetuity" exactly but instead "forever" which is the same thing. chowder66 Feb 28 #12

He probably deserved worse. 70sEraVet Feb 28 #16

Seems everyone was pretty happy with the outcome. chowder66 Feb 28 #17

...... 70sEraVet Feb 28 #25

Those cemeteries are all over the South in particular. I visited SC plantations live love laugh Feb 28 #13

I look forward to your OP! 70sEraVet Feb 28 #15

"Those cemeteries are all over the South in particular. " BumRushDaShow Feb 28 #21

Great story on the efforts to preserve the burial grounds in Manhattan! 70sEraVet Feb 28 #24

Here is some of that will..... chowder66 Feb 28 #14

Thank you for that surfered Feb 28 #18

Thank you for your work and for your post. NNadir Feb 28 #19

An excellent work on documentation of slaves concerns Thomas Jefferson's African American family. NNadir Feb 28 #20

It's vital to preserve Freedmen's Towns and Black Cemeteries Comrade Citizen Feb 28 #23

Thank you DaBronx Feb 28 #26