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Another 'Historic Brochure Tour' Made Available on PocketSights!

Wed, March 01, 2023 12:40 PM | Anonymous

Another 'Historic Brochure Tour' Made Available on PocketSights!

We are excited to share the next installment in our 'Historic Brochures' tour series! Our first project in this series was the digitization of the 1986 A Literary Walking Tour of Ithaca.

'The Southside's African-American Heritage Walking Tour' was originally researched by Leslyn McBean & Ingrid Bauer and made public in 2003 as a printed brochure. Through the work of our volunteers at The History Center this valuable resource is now also available on the FREE Pocketsights app!

The Southside neighborhood has an African-American heritage that dates back nearly 200 years. From the founding of the St. James A.M.E. Zion Church in 1833, to the Underground Railroad, to the construction of the Southside Community Center in 1938, the Southside was "The place to be."

Discover more Black history from Ithaca and Tompkins County at thehistorycenter.net/black-history

TOUR HERE: https://pocketsights.com/.../Ithaca-The-Southside's...

Our thanks to Claire Deng and Kethry Larsen who did the majority of the digitization and re-structuring work for this project during 2022.