WESTAMPTON, N.J. (CBS) -- Next week the nation will celebrate Juneteenth, the national holiday marking June 19, 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to carry out the Emancipation Proclamation, ...
The family tree of Mary Giles Weston and her son, Guy, took root two centuries ago in a place called Timbuctoo. In 1829, Mary’s great-great-great-grandfather John Bruer bought an acre of land near the ...
Timbuctoo, NJ was established in 1826 as a free Black community. Guy Weston of the Timbuctoo Historical Society said this ...