Portsmouth wants to return historic Black neighborhood land

The city and the state decimated the Sugar Hill neighborhood over the course of several decades, seizing some of the property with tactics such as aggressive tax liens, because both governments wanted the land for major projects like railroads, freeways and tunnels. Portsmouth wants to make things right.

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