City of Lexington identifying, celebrating African American hamlets

The City of Lexington is working to identify and celebrate African American communities established in the 19^th century, many by freed slaves. So far, 20 hamlets have been identified, one of which is Cadentown, which the city purchased a portion of in 2003 for $136,000. Tiffany Brown is Lexington’s equity officer; she said city leaders are getting plenty of help.

“There’s been so many people who have been involved in, have been meeting to kind of form a steering committee to develop this project called ‘A Sense of Place: Remembering and Celebrating the history of Fayette County's Rural Black Hamlets.’”