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Ad on Santa Fe Trail Marker
Photographer: Unknown
Taken: Circa 1859
Caption: Ad on Santa Fe Trail Marker
Additional Description: [Caption reads] African-American businessman Hiram Young employed more than a dozen men in building wagons. In 1867, he helped found a public school for black children in Independence. Courtesy of Jackson County Historical Society, Independence, Mo.
Submitted: September 7, 2011, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p171245
File Size: 0.145 Megabytes

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