A slice of history — The Hunterfly Road Houses

Celebrating Black History Month! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ [Better] [Better]( This week's mortgage rates [Rate chart] [Rate chart]( Source: US average mortgage rates from [FreddieMac]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Better Mortgage Interested in today's rates? [See Better Mortgage rates]( --------------------------------------------------------------- #FundFact 🏡 The Hunterfly Road Houses were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.¹ [Rate chart] [Rate chart]( Things to know A slice of history — The Hunterfly Road Houses A slice of history — The Hunterfly Road Houses Last week kicked off Black History Month, a month dedicated to celebrating the achievements and contributions of Black Americans across the nation from the past and present. In honor of this celebratory month, we’ll be sharing the story of the Hunterfly Road Houses, which once was among the country’s largest independent 19th-century Black communities. What are the Hunterfly Road Houses? [The Hunterfly Road Houses]( were discovered by Pratt Institute professor James Hurley and pilot Joseph Haynes while doing an aerial survey over the Bedford-Stuyvesant area for a neighborhood workshop in 1968. These homes are the remaining remnants of a thriving Black community called Weeksville, founded in 1838 after the state of New York abolished slavery in 1827. Prithi Kanakamedala, a historian and professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, says the Hunterfly Road Houses symbolize what was possible for free Black communities in the US during the 19th-century. Weeksville, named after James Weeks who was one of the community’s largest property owners, became a safe haven and was home to about 700 families. Its flourishing community included a school, church, and newspaper called the Freedman’s Torchlight, which served as an educational resource to newly freed slaves by publishing lessons on the alphabet, English and arithmetic. In 1969, shortly after being rediscovered by James Hurley and Joseph Haynes, the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant History was established by Joan Maynard. In 1971 the Hunterfly Road Houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the Hunterfly Road Houses have been restored, and serve as an interactive [museum that is free and open to the public](. The importance of equitable solutions and moving forward together Focusing on the creation of programs that provide equitable solutions to close the Black-White homeownership gap is important now more than ever. 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