Our Pick
Posted on @rawstates
Weeksville founded
1838
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
A community of free Black landowners established eleven years after New York abolished slavery, with its own school, newspaper, orphanage and church, property ownership meant the vote. It was lost entirely until four houses were spotted from a light aircraft in 1968.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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