The enslaved people of Lyon Farm who built Georgia’s oldest Black community

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From Bondage to Brotherhood at Lyon Farm

The Lyon Farm historic farmhouse in Georgia’s Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area holds the roots of one of the state’s oldest African American communities.

In the 1820s, former British soldier Joseph Emmanuel Lyon enslaved people on this land…

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