Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community ‘Book of Mormon’ for $25? Playhouse offers ticket lottery New history trail documents Iron Hill’s free Black families Raise those glasses! Wilmington Beer Week returns Plan for Newport considers train station, Boxwood Road Mt. Cuba: Sedges should be welcome addition to gardens Business Food Bank …
New history trail documents Iron Hill’s free Black families
A new history trail at Iron Hill Museum documents the existence and lives of free Black families who began settling there in the 1930s. No one knows if any of those who lived there had been slaves, although it’s certainly possible, historians said after the trail’s ribbon cutting on a gloriously sunny afternoon. The families included the Congos, Websters, Earls, …