The Academy Art Museum will begin an archaeological dig into one of the earliest black-owned Maryland properties to study the African American experience prior to the Civil War.
The Academy Art Museum has acquired properties for the creation of an annex. The land was originally owned by one of the earliest documented free Black landowning families in Easton.
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Development has forced many historically Black communities around the country to uproot and disperse. Cemeteries often remain the only proof that those communities existed.