Concerned Citizens of Tillery, History House Museum website
The History House Museum: Come Walk Through History's Front Door
The History House Museum stands on former plantation land worked by generations of Black slaves. After the Civil War, Black family farmers as sharecroppers lived and labored on the former plantation lands of Tillery. In the 1930s and 1940s, approximately 65 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted his New Deal Resettlement Program, a program offering Black families the opportunity to purchase land. Today the History House Museum, a former Resettlement home owned by Louis & Glendora Thomas, stands on Black owned land and houses a community historical exhibit. The museum has been collaboratively designed by CCT's History Committee and 2004-2005 Documentary Study Students at Duke University, using the photographs and oral and visual histories collected since 1995 by the Concerned Citizens of Tillery.
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