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Lawyers for Orange County Public Schools argued before a judge Thursday morning for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed over the future of 100 acres of land that once housed the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, a historic Black educational facility in Eatonville. The land was nearly sold to a developer who backed out in March after residents spoke out against the plan to build .
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Since she was a child in the 1950s and 60s, Bea Leach Hatler had always heard stories of “the land in Eatonville” that was an important part of her family’s legacy. On Thursday, for the first time, she saw what was left of the property that once housed the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, her great-grandfather’s namesake. “It’s like, God, they were here. They were here,” said .