The United States government authorized the enlistment of African Americans for the Union Army in 1863, but it was the Spring of 1864 before active recruitment began.
Simon Murdock was a Civil War veteran and an important member of the New Windsor African-American community following the war.
Storer College was founded after the Civil War when a philanthropist donated $10,000 for the establishment of a school without regard to a student’s race, sex, or religion.
Tolson’s Chapel was an African American church and Freedmen’s Bureau school in the years after the Civil War.
Union Cemetery contains a Confederate War Memorial.
The Union Street Methodist Episcopal Church was an African-American church founded by Reverend John Baptist Snowden in 1867.
This elaborate arch was designed to commemorate the journalists and artists of the Civil War.
White Rock Church was built in 1868, probably by newly-freed black citizens.
