VERSAILLES, Ky. (FOX 56) — Along the quiet trails of Huntertown Community Interpretive Park in Versailles, the footsteps of history run deep.
Today, the 38-acre green space offers a place to walk, reflect, and learn. But more than a century ago, this land was home to a tight-knit African American hamlet known as Huntertown.
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For more than 130 years, freed African Americans and their descendants built lives here — owning property, raising families, operating businesses, and sending their children to a local school.
“I always tell people these were men who were once considered property, and they came here to Huntertown and purchased their own property,” said local historian Sioux Finney…