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Other Black Communities in Rock Creek Park
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Investigations at the Whitby and Dickson sites shows the permanence of African American settlement at Broad Branch. Yet these three home sites are only part of a larger picture. The efforts of Black migrants to own land and to live in self-sustaining communities transformed DC’s landscape in the 1800s. Communities today have roots in the past.
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Series: The Sarah Whitby Site and African American History
- Type: Article
Sarah Whitby was an African American woman whose family lived in Rock Creek Park between 1870 and 1900. Excavations of her house's cellar and documentary research opened a window into Washington's African American past.
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The Jane Dickson and Charles Dickson Sites
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Charles Dickson and Jane Dickson were the only two African American property owners to sell their land to Rock Creek Park. The remains at these sites bring focus to interrelated African American enclaves. Most of these communities are poorly represented in the archeological record.
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The Sarah Whitby Site
- Type: Article
Among the many African American families that moved to Washington were the Whitbys. In 1895 the Whitbys rented a house on a small parcel of land that had belonged to Isaac Shoemaker. Learn what archeology contributes to our knowledge about their lives.
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Sarah Whitby Home Site
- Type: Place
Sarah Whitby was an African-American woman who lived with her family in what would become Rock Creek Park.
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The Dover Family
- Type: Person
The Dover family had several connections to Rock Creek Park over a 100 year time span
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African American Families in Rock Creek Park around Broad Branch
- Type: Article
Excavations of the Whitby house cellar, and documentary research done as part of the same project, have opened a window into Washington's African-American past.
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World Heritage Sit (WHS) status is a unique honor granted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to cultural and natural sites around the globe that have common significance to the common heritage of humanity. Cahokia Mounds currently stands alone in the Midwest as the only WHS.