Extraordinarily precious : Experts weigh in on historical Black town site of Dearfield as it s considered for National Park Service inclusion – Hartford Courant courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“I am personally of the opinion that any remnant of a Black town that existed, if it’s preserved on a national level with federal funds or state or local levels, the preservation needs to happen,” said Angela Bates, who led the effort to get Black site Nicodemus, Kansas into the park system in the late 1990s.
"We heard a lot of ideas, and the turn out was fantastic," Lawson said near the end of the evening. "Nobody goes to public meetings. People care about this place."