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Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes
Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they fear will make them sell their land.Elected commissioners in Georgia's McIntosh County voted in September to weaken zoning restrictions that for decades helped protect Black residents of Hogg Hummock, a group of modest homes along dirt roads on largely unspoiled Sapelo Island. About 30 to 50 Black residents still live in Hogg Hummock, which was founded by formerly enslaved people who had worked on a plantation.Hogg Hummock residents and their...
Letter: Huston House fire shouldn't allow us to extinguish history of Butler Island
This letter is from Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson of Savannah It is tragic that arson incinerated the iconic Huston house on Butler Island in McIntosh County, on June 26. It had withstood nature’s vagaries for almost a century. ...
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