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Titusville project documents Joynerville's African American history, urges signage, walking tours and website
Summary
A city-funded preservation effort called "Joynerville and beyond" documented Titusville's African American history, tracing settlement from the 1880s and recommending interpretive signs, walking tours and a website to preserve local memory.
City of Titusville staff and consultants presented findings from “Joynerville and beyond,” a project documenting the city’s African American heritage and funded by a grant from the Florida Division of Historical Resources. The presentation described early settlement beginning in the 1880s, the growth of a Black commercial district on South Street, and recommendations to place interpretive signs, publish walking-tour materials and launch a website to preserve local memory.
The project, led by Stantec of Orlando in collaboration with the City of Titusville Historic Preservation Board and community members, used archival research, field study and oral-history interviews. A public workshop in April 2024 gathered…
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