Weeksville Heritage Center
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The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site on Buffalo Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. It is dedicated to the preservation of Weeksville, one of America's first free black communities during the 19th century. Within this community, the residents established schools, churches and benevolent associations and were active in the abolitionist movement. Weeksville is a historic settlement of national significance and one of the few remaining historical sites of pre-Civil War African-American communities.
Hunterfly Road House, August 2009
Image from exhibit at Weeksville Heritage Center about the newspaper publication, The Freedman's Torchlight, published by the African Civilization Society
Exhibition artwork in Weeksville lobby - side left view
Weeksville, Brooklyn
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Weeksville is a historic neighborhood founded by free African Americans in what is now Brooklyn, New York, United States. Today it is part of the present-day neighborhood of Crown Heights.
The fourth house