Observed arrival · 2026-09-10
Beyond Avalon: Naming the People History Left Out
A public-history and genealogy project tracing the enslaved people, families, descendants, records, and institutional aftermath connected to Avalon Plantation in Huntsville, Alabama.
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The project organizes its research across a names registry, documentary sources, family findings, and maps connecting Avalon Plantation to the later UAH campus. Its stated method cross-references wills, bills of sale, censuses, freedom papers, and related records to restore identities and kinship links. The homepage reports 1,199+ enslaved individuals documented so far, including 106 people recorded at Avalon in 1860 across 35 dwellings.
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