They’ve got the land and now there’s a plan to build the Early Black Settlers of Negro Creek Memorial Park, just south of Williamsford.

A group working to establish a memorial park wants to start building this spring. The park will honour early local Black settlers who escaped slavery in the United States and arrived here starting around the 1840s.

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“We want it to be a peaceful place to reflect and remember, hence the garden in the middle,” said Nancy Lee, who traces her Negro Creek community roots through the Miller family.

The land is along Negro Creek Road, just east of Highway 6, south of Williamsford. Two acres was donated in 2024 by Jim Douglas , of the original Douglas family on Negro Creek Road. He still owns the family’s 300-acre parcel, Lee said.

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