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    • Timbuctoo: Brief History
    • Notable Places and Events
    • NJ Mirror Articles
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    • Podcasts
    • Presentations and Videos
    • Report to Westampton Twp.
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Selected Press Coverage

May 2, 2024

What sites are part of Black Heritage Trail in NJ? 

By Celeste Whitaker

Cherry Hill Courier Post

February 1, 2024

7 things to do in South Jersey for Black History Month

By Celeste Whitaker

Cherry Hill Courier Post

February 27, 2023

Timbuctoo is a historically Black hamlet with an inspiring past and an uncertain future

By Kevin Riordan

Philadelphia Inquirer

January 30, 2023

Discover New Jersey’s Underground  Railroad Stop at Timbuctoo 

By Sue Fajgier 

Discover New Jersey

February 22, 2022

What happened to the dozens of Black towns that once existed in South Jersey? 

By Celeste Whittaker and Nicolette White

Cherry Hill Courier Post

February 21, 2022

Not teachers, but they work hard to fill the gaps about South Jersey's Black history

By Phaedra Trethan

Cherry Hill Courier-Post

February 15, 2022

Preservation of Black burial grounds could uncover hundreds of unmarked graves.  

By Nicolette White

Burlington County Times

February 9, 2022

The Trent House Association presents a virtual talk on Timbuctoo 

By Dan Aubrey

PrincetonInfo

February 5, 2022

Online presentation to explore South Jersey community of freed slaves

By Community Bulletin

NewJersey.com

March 22, 2021

Bill linking state's Black heritage has South Jersey lawmaker's backing

By Joseph P. Smith

Vineland Daily Journal/Burlington County Times

December 8, 2020

RV history teachers win award for developing lesson about local community of former slaves

By Jarrad Daniel Saffren

Burlington County Times



February 27, 2020

Timbuctoo, Historic African American Cemeteries celebrated in Burlington

By Lisa Broadt

Burlington County Times



September 19, 2019

Timbuctoo Day to commemorate 400th anniversary of beginning of slavery

By Gianluca D’Elia

Burlington County Times



March 15, 2019

Group works to bring Westampton's Timbuctoo history to students

By: Anthony Di Mattia, Burlington County Times

September 25, 2018

New Interpretive signs tell Timbuctoo history in Westampton

By: Danielle DeSisto, Burlington County Times

June 1, 2015

Westampton to form Timbuctoo committee to enhance historic African-American village site

By: Joe Green, Burlington County Times

May 24, 2015

Honoring what lies beneath

By: Alfred Lubrano, Philadelphia Inquirer

February 15, 2015

Descendant says Burlington County village of ex-slaves included free blacks

By: Jan Hefler, Philadelphia Inquirer

August 3, 2010

Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, NJ is helping to rewrite African American history

By: DeNeen Brown, Washington Post

December 18, 2005

Resident determined to revive historic Timbuctoo neighborhood

By: Kevin Riordan, Courier Post

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