Watts Chapel

Port Hampton Culture Series
“Life in the Reservation Community”
Monday February 5, 7-8pm
Museum members free, non-members $5
In the decades before and after the Civil War, free and enslaved Black landholders and entrepreneurs settled on the banks of the York River to build families and livelihoods. The community they established became known as the Reservation. In 1918, the U.S. government commandeered the land to create what is now known as the Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown. Over the following years, families at the Reservation were displaced – pushed from their land and community.

Join Reservation descendants Chief Charles Bowman, Mary Lassiter, Rosa Lee, and Johnette Weaver as they tell their stories.

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