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Earliest U.S. Black-Founded Town Designated National Historic Site (newswise.com)

by Duane on August 15th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
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Newswise — The site of the first U.S. town founded by an African American, New Philadelphia, Illinois, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places – the nation’s official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.

A former slave founded New Philadelphia in 1836 as a bi-racial community 25 miles from the slave trade along the Mississippi River. The community survived into the twentieth century, and an archaeological team is excavating in the 42-acre field where the town once stood. (more…)




 

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