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Preservation Efforts Keep a Noble History Alive in Promise Land
Nashville activists aid in the maintenance of a historic Tennessee community founded by freedmen
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In Dickson County, a 150-year-old African American settlement still stands. The unincorporated community of Promise Land, Tenn., is a piece of living history, carrying on a powerful story of freedom through the descendants of its founders, its educational programs and its ongoing volunteer efforts.
And recently, it has also become the site of collaboration between Nashville activists and Dickson County natives.
Promise Land was settled shortly after the Civil War by a group of freedmen, including at least six United States Colored Troops veterans, and it quickly became a self-sustaining community. In the early 1880s, brothers Arch and John Nesbitt used their war pensions to build a school and church. In the followin ....

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