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Jan 27, 2014 · In 1848, William Arnold and William Brown, both Black settlers, bought land in Africville. Other families followed and in 1849 Seaview African United Baptist Church was opened to serve the village’s 80 residents.
Nov 19, 2020 · William Brown Sr. and William Arnold purchased land on the southern shore of the Bedford Basin in Halifax. People from the Black Refugee communities at Hammonds Plains and Preston began settling there and the area gradually became known as Africville.
Africville was settled in about the 1840s by people from the Black Refugee communities of Hammonds Plains and Preston. William Brown Sr and William Arnold purchased the land in 1848; the first church congregation (later Seaview African United Baptist) was established in 1849; and an elementary school was opened in 1883.
Jul 22, 2020 · Black settlers William Arnold and William Brown bought land in Africville in 1848. Other families soon followed and by the next year, the village was home to about 80 residents. Scroll through...
Jun 13, 2024 · In 1848, William Arnold and William Brown, both Black settlers, bought land in Africville. Other families followed, and in 1849 Seaview African United Baptist Church was opened to serve the village’s 80 residents.
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William Brown, Sr., (abt. 1804 - April 1, 1868) was an original founder of the Africville community in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His original purchase along with that of William Arnold in 1848 marked the establishment of the settlement.
Jul 6, 2021 · For example, William Brown Sr. and William Arnold are “regarded in Africville lore as the founder[s] of the community” with their initial purchases of six acres of land each in the mid-nineteenth century. [7]
