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1. I'd guess that was Broad St or Jackson Ward

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2022, 01:08 PM

Jun 2022

Anything not Monument Avenue.

Jackson Ward was one of a few “Black Wall Streets”. Guess where it was decided to put interstates 95/64 right through town.

It was also decided to put the downtown expressway 195 right through Oregon Hill. The Hill was (mostly still is) a white only poor neighborhood. Wiped out about 1/2 of it. Residents were from Appalachia brought in to work at Tredegar Iron Works.

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