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Lecture on the gone but not forgotten historic Reservation community set for Monday

In the decades before and after the Civil War, many Black people came to call the banks of the York River home. This, however, came to a halt in 1918 when the U.S. government took the land, displacing its residents, and created what is now known as Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown a far […] ....

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