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Descendants of free Black pioneers who settled Lick Creek Settlement hike the Hoosier National Forest Lick Creek Trail after helping clean gravestones at the Roberts & Thomas Cemetery, which is ...
Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.
Creek Freedmen is a term for emancipated Creeks of African descent who were slaves of Muscogee Creek tribal members before 1866. They were emancipated under the tribe's 1866 treaty with the United States following the American Civil War , during which the Creek Nation had allied with the Confederate States of America.
The area is downstream from the Tar Creek Superfund Site, […] — The Eastern Shawnee Tribe is celebrating a multi-agency effort to restore a creek that runs through their land.
Morgan Bryan, of Irish ancestry, [2] was born in Denmark in 1671 [3] to Francis and Sarah Bringer (or Brinker) Bryan. [2] His family left Ireland for Denmark after Bryan's grandfather opposed Oliver Cromwell. The Bryans lost titles and family lands that they were unable to recover. [4] Francis returned to Ireland in 1683 and died in Belfast in ...
Lost City (formerly Stone City and Stone Creek Settlement) is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, 11 miles (18 km) from Angels Camp along Bear Creek. It lies at an elevation of 1053 feet (321 m). Lost City was constructed in the 1870s by Eugene Barbe. [2]
Lost Creek is located at (39.158451, -80.348165) in southern Harrison County [ 9 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.51 km 2 ), all of it land.
Oregon Geographic Names (OGN) says the north–south valley through which the creek flows was known as Lost Valley during the days of early settlement. Illustrated History of Lane County says Elijah Bristow named the valley, according to OGN, which says the name probably stemmed from the valley's seclusion. [2]