The first Negro School in Marion County was set up by the Freedmen’s Bureau at the end of the Civil War and opened in March 1866 with 60 pupils. The school was staffed by a teacher from the Missionary Aid Association. Its original location is unknown. The following year, the school moved to a log Read More…
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IRA PHILIP t Recently we did a feature on the visit of US Congressman George K. Butterfield to Bermuda, his ancestral home, and birthplace of his father, Dr. George Kenneth Butterfield. Dr. George was one of the 12 children of James Peter Butterfield, a tailor by profession and his wife Ann Harriett Giles Butterfield of St. Read More…