Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Ray Gurganus
Taken: November 10, 2021
Caption: Urban Displacement -- A Neighborhood Lost
Additional Description: Many community members where born downtown and grew up attending school and church together in a friendly, family-oriented neighborhood. House doors were never locked, and residents looked out for one another.

In the late 1960's, downtown was demolished to make way for Greenville's redevelopment plans for the area. Devestated community members were forced to leave their homes, which were then destroyed, and a neighborhood disappeared.
Submitted: November 13, 2021, by Ray Gurganus of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p621220
File Size: 3.830 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.