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Princeville, freedom's town
1885
Princeville, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
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Freed people settled low ground on the Tar River at the end of the Civil War, called it Freedom Hill, and in 1885 incorporated it as Princeville, the oldest town in America chartered by Black citizens. The land was available because it floods, and it has, catastrophically, in 1999 and 2016. The town has refused federal buyouts both times, because moving would mean the end of the thing itself.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: city-level
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