Townsend | Roslyn Local History

Oct 24, 20223 min read

Spotlight on Educators: Keturah A. Townsend

For fourteen years, between 1899 and 1913, Keturah (Kate) Townsend taught Roslyn’s African American children in the segregated one-room...

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Feb 7, 20222 min read

Those “dreaded 1941 covenants”

Several years ago, the Local History Collection acquired a copy of pages from an early Norgate-at-Roslyn deed. It was received from...

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Jan 3, 20224 min read

“We found you!”: The Salem A.M.E. Cemetery

Researcher Carolyn Brown has been on a journey since the mid 1990’s and made an epic find last week, just in time for the holidays. A...

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Feb 26, 202111 min read

The Other Side of the Coin: African Americans in Roslyn

By Carol L. Clarke Archivist, The Bryant Library For at least two centuries, African Americans have been an integral part of the greater...

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