So what if it's old
So what if it's old news?
I just found out, and I think it's cool. This is an important part of our history (and anyone who thinks I only mean Black folk by "our" has issues). I didn't know it was at risk and am really glad to discover the risk at the same time as the resolution.
from Preservation Online
Story by Margaret Foster / Oct. 29, 2002
Instead of becoming a 188-unit housing development, a 99-acre farm that was the site of an 1862 Civil War battle will soon become part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
The Trust for Public Land, a conservation group, announced yesterday that it will buy the Murphy Farm and transfer it to the National Park Service, which will reimburse the Trust.
The Murphy family says it is "overjoyed" that the property, which has been a working farm since 1869, will be added to the adjacent 2,300-acre national park. "This is a dream that every generation of the Murphy family has shared," the family said in a statement.
From 1895-1910, abolitionist John Brown?s fort stood on the Murphy Farm. In 1906, W.E.B. DuBois and other African-American leaders made a barefoot pilgrimage to the fort, a meeting that resulted in the formation of the NAACP.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/30/2003 05:44:59 PM |
