The marker identifies the region of DeWitty, later called Audacious, the largest and longest-lasting African American settlement in rural Nebraska. Black homesteaders established farms, schools, a church, businesses and community events in the Sandhills before environmental and economic pressures led most families away.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: history.nebraska.gov/marker-monday-dewitty-an-african-american-settlement-in-the-sandhills/