WESTAMPTON, N.J. (CBS) -- Next week the nation will celebrate Juneteenth, the national holiday marking June 19, 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to carry out the Emancipation Proclamation, ...
WESTAMPTON, N.J. (CBS) -- Next week the nation will celebrate Juneteenth, the national holiday marking June 19, 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to carry out the Emancipation Proclamation, ...
In the spirit of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the U.S., a historic free Black community in Burlington County is fighting to keep its story alive ...
TIMBUCTOO, N.J. — In Timbuctoo lies a hill. Underneath that hill lies a house, or what archaeologists think might have been a house once upon a time. The silver clasp of a woman's handbag, piles of ...
WESTAMPTON – Buffalo Soldier re-enactors and the unveiling of history signage will highlight Saturday's celebration of Timbuctoo, a former settlement of slaves and free blacks dating to 1826. The ...
Many elements of history lie hidden amid family heirlooms. Katherine Butler Jones, a Black woman from Massachusetts, was going through some family documents more than two decades ago when she came ...
Jun. 30—LAKE PLACID — A new "Timbuctoo" historic marker is a small sign with great import. It changes the narrative about who is remembered and what stories are told by whom in the Adirondacks. On ...