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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.
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 ...
In 1771, a convicted felon, by the name of Winsler Driggers, captured "near Drowning Creek, in the Charraw settlement," was reported as hanged under the Negro Act. [26] That mention, along with no evidence that a new settlement was established or the old settlement was abandoned, is not sufficient to confirm that the settlement on Drowning ...
The Arapahoe and Lost Creek Site is an archeological site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Site includes evidence of settlement over a 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) stretch along the terraces of Arapahoe Creek and Lost Creek. The site was used by Native Americans more or less continuously for 9000 years until about 1900.
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.
Lost Creek Township is one of twelve townships in Vigo County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,497 and it contained 4,236 housing units. [ 2 ] It contains Terre Haute, Indiana 's eastern, suburban end, along with the affluent Hulman family ranch and the Terre Haute International Airport originally named ...
Lost Cove was formed by Karst erosion common around the Cumberland Plateau. Its total length from Sewanee to the Crow Creek Valley in Sherwood, Tennessee is approximately 7 miles (11 km). At a partially eroded ridge resembling a Saddle, the cove is divided at the Big Sink and Lost Cove Cave into northern and southern sections. The northern ...
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