Archaeological dig searches for remnants of Brooklyn, IIl. history
The Illinois State Archaeological Survey is conducting an excavation in Brooklyn, Illinois. The aim of the endeavor is to discover and provide physical information that gives the town, founded by freed African Americans in the mid 1800s, a sense of its history by archaeological means.
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Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists want to help get it on the map.Â
