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Feb 9, 2024 · The Vigo County History Center will conduct a presentation by Reed on the Lost Creek Settlement at 1:30 p.m. today (Feb. 10) in the center’s auditorium. History Center and Osher Lifelong ...
Dorothy loved gardening, history and her community. She devoted many years of active service at the Lost Creek Grove, Lost Creek Missionary Baptist Church and Stewart Lawn Cemetery. She was well known as a local historian with decades of research on the Lost Creek Settlement. She delighted in sharing genealogy and historic family memorabilia.
Sep 11, 2016 · The story of free African Americans who left their farms in the southeast for a new life in the north is told in the portrait of a well-dressed school teacher,
Prior to the official not-for-profit status, the organization was and continues to be fondly known as the Lost Creek Community Grove. The descendents of the Lost Creek Settlement, of which the Lost Creek Community Grove came to be the heart and center, can trace their history to the founding families that migrated to the area from North ...
Feb 2, 2018 · Early Black Settlements by County. Popular understanding of Indiana black history focuses on post-Civil War African-American migration to cities in the north, such as Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis and South Bend. This generalized thinking situates Indiana’s African-Americans as part of a national story, but fails to reveal the ...
Apr 13, 2023 · As Reed’s late mother Lost Creek historian Dorothy Ross told the Tribune-Star in 2019, “It was a shame, but it was necessary that they carry [the ‘freedom papers’] with them in order to ...
Feb 10, 2024 · After working 25 years in higher education, Dee Reed spoke on the Lost Creek Settlement. A group of free black Americans formed the settlement in eastern Vigo County in the early 1800s. It was to escape the violent racism and persecution on the east coast.
