HHS is honored to welcome back the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center for the 5th Annual Juneteenth Jubilee! This event includes a celebration of triumph and history, during which we will honor and remember the formerly enslaved Africans that were integral to New Paltz’s history.
The afternoon will offer a number of presenters and performances, including African drumming by Amadou Diallo, a Black History Moment with Albert Cook, musical performance by 7he 7eam Band, the unveiling of two new Witness Stones by Historic Huguenot Street commemorating the first two individuals to have been enslaved in New Paltz, and so much more.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged and highly appreciated.
“Jacob Wynkoop Free Black Neighborhood Tour” led by Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran
12:30 PM and 2:30 PM
Historic Huguenot Street and the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center will be offering two special opportunities to take a walking tour of the Broadhead-Church-Mulberry Street neighborhood where Black carpenter and Civil War veteran, Jacob Wynkoop, constructed a number of homes for the free Black community of New Paltz in the 19th-century. In addition to telling the story of Jacob and his family, the tour will reveal stories of other African-American families who made the neighborhood their home in the late 19th and first decades of the 20th century, including Margaret Hasbrouck Clow, daughter of John Hasbrouck, one of the first African Americans eligible to vote in New Paltz. The tour also introduces members of the Oliver, Freer, Rose, Banks, and LeFevre families, as well as former slave Judy Jackson.
Tours will begin at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center. They will last approximately one hour and fifteen minutes, and span a distance of approximately one mile. Please note that this tour will require participants to be on their feet for the entirety of the program. This program is not recommended for individuals with mobility restrictions.
$8 General Admission
$5 Discounted Admission for HHS members, MWLC members, seniors, students, active-duty military personnel and their families, veterans, and children under 18
Free for children under 13
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature