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Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Antebellum and Civil War: 2 dated entries from the full dataset. Back to the highlights →
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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The Hogan-Rogers House was built on the Hogan plantation on Purefoy Road
The house on Purefoy Road, on land now owned by St. Paul AME Church, dates to the 1840s and stood on the Hogan plantation, where enslaved people lived in its basement. INDY Week reported in 2012 that many Rogers-Eubanks residents descend from people held on the plantation.
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Freedpeople build a church and school at Chapel Hill's West End
After emancipation, Black families kept homes and small farms on Chapel Hill's west end. St. Paul's congregation, first gathered under an arbor in December 1864, built a log church on Merritt Mill Road and bought land in 1878, and in 1866 Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought an acre nearby for a freedmen's school.
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