I couldn’t help but smile while listening to the speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony of New College of Florida’s public archaeology lab. And I suspect the ancestors of an 1800s settlement called Angola smiled along with me. After all, their lives and legacies were at stake. A few flashbacks on that fine occasion reminded me […]

Miami Herald Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007 FLORIDA JOURNAL Story of early Florida black settlement emerging A forgotten 19th century black settlement in mid-Florida is reemerging as a compelling story. Posted on Tue, Oct. 16, 2007 BY AUDRA D.S. BURCH aburch@MiamiHerald.com   CHARLES TRAINOR JR/MIAMI HERALD STAFF Vicki Oldham stands next to a Civil War era […]

9/11 TECH TOOL USED IN SEARCH FOR ANGOLAHigh tech equipment used to assess underground damage near the World Trade Center site after 9/11 will now assist archaeologists in the search for artifacts of an 1800’s slave settlement near Tampa Bay known as Angola. Using a method called Radar Tomography (RT), St. Petersburg-based Witten Technologies will […]

January 28, 2006 – New Records Have Been Added to the Africana Heritage Database! New Records, Week Ending December 4, 2005 The following records have been added to the Africana Heritage Project database: Many thanks to Bill Davison for the following Records: Boyles, William. Appraisement, Marion County, WV Brice, Benjamin. Indenture of Sal to Rachel Brice Crawford, […]