Restored Santa Fe Trail pioneer headstone to return home
The historic headstone commemorating Kate Kingsbury is ready for reinstalling at the Odd Fellows Cemetery off Cerrillos Road.
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The historic headstone commemorating Kate Kingsbury is ready for reinstalling at the Odd Fellows Cemetery off Cerrillos Road.
The Whitman Street property, vacant and crumbling for the last several years, will be redeveloped as a 12-18 unit affordable housing cooperative.
As this is Black History Month, with a nod to our generation’s Grammy Award-winning rapper-singers Andre 3000 (who plays more than a dozen flutes) and Lizzo (who is a classically
The Odd Fellows Building was suggested by Black newspaper editor Benjamin J. Davis (1870-1945), designed by white Atlanta architect William A. Edwards (1866-1939) and built by Robert E. Pharrow, owner of an African-American construction company. Despite the Jim Crow era, the two men, Black and white, worked side by side toward completing the structure.
Editor's Note: February is Black History Month. To celebrate the history of those with ties to our county, the Daviess County Museum has created biographies of several Black residents who