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Three Centuries of African-American History in Trenton :Significant People and PlacesStop the Wrecking Ball Three Centuries of African-American History in Trenton :Significant People and Placesby Jennifer B. LeynesPrepared forTrenton Historical SocietyWith funding fromNew Jersey Historical CommissionAcknowledgementsThe Trenton Historical Society thanks the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State,for funding this publication through a project grant. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of AutumnDilley, who conducted research and located historic photographs for this publication, and Robert Most Clark, whotranscribed census data for the Spring Street neighborhood mapping project. The guidance of Wendy Nardi, committeechair and archivist of the Trentoniana Collection of the Trenton Free Public Library, was invaluable throughout theproject, as was the support of Trenton Historical Society president Helen Shannon and committee members SallyLane and Elizabeth Yull.

American residents began forming institutions to serve and support their small community. Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church was one such organization that has survived to the present. As the century progressed, the city established its first school for African-American children in a building on Hanover Street in 1832.

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