AUGUST 9, 2017 | CONTRIBUTED BY: NATHAN RIVET Freedmen’s Town is a nationally registered historical site. The site was originally a community located in the fourth ward of Houston, Texas that began in 1865 as the destination for former enslaved people from surrounding plantations in Texas and Louisiana after the Civil War. Freedmen’s Town is located southwest of downtown. After emancipation was […]
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