App State is collaborating on the Junaluska Community Archaeology Project to help preserve the material heritage of the only remaining Black community in Boone.
A team of professional and amateur archaeologists unearthed Native American history at the state historic site in the Sandhills. The items they found were small, yet important in piecing together the site’s history.
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Answers found at the future site of North Carolina Freedom Park could tell more local history not just from records of the landowning white men, but the enslaved African Americans who labored and lived there and the Native Americans who may have predated all of them on the site.
License for Diamond Jacks Casino Might Move to Slidell
The plan to move the Diamond Jacks Casino license from Bossier City to south Louisiana is moving forward. There is a proposal to move the local license to the Slidell area.
Citizens of St. Tammany Parish would first have to vote to have the gambling complex built on Lake Ponchatrain in the Slidell area. The State Gaming Control Board would also have to ok moving the license.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to let the process move forward for a gambling establishment in southeast Louisiana. The vote to move out of committee was 4-3. The bill is now headed to the Senate floor.