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Historic bricks laid in part by formerly enslaved people in Freedmen's Town were unearthed and damaged this week in an apparent construction oversight that drew a swift response from community leaders and a Houston City Council member.

The bricks damaged were at the corner of Andrews and Wilson streets, in the heart of the National Historic District commemorating the neighborhood created by freed African Americans after the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1860s.

The bricks were hit by a contractor working on a street improvement project in what Sharon Fletcher, executive director of the Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy, said was human error without "ill intent." However, Fletcher reiterated the need to preserve the bricks and the history attach

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