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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...
Oct 24, 20223 min read
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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...
Feb 7, 20222 min read
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“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...
Jan 3, 20224 min read
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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...
Feb 26, 202111 min read
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