The 400 acres of land along South Carolina Highway 61 was acquired in the late 17th century. It was home to the Drayton ...

Randolph’s executor, William Leigh, settled on Ohio’s Mercer County, and bought roughly 3,200 acres near a fledgling Black community in a town called Carthagena. But when the Freedpeole arrived, a ...

An attempt to turn Oak Hill, the Loudoun County home of President James Monroe, into a state park nearly became history in ...