{"id":35952,"date":"2014-03-01T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35952"},"modified":"2014-03-01T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:44:12","slug":"a-roanoke-island-colony-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35952","title":{"rendered":"A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chowandiscovery.org\/2014\/02\/25\/a-roanoke-island-colony-remembered\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chowandiscovery.org\" target=\"_blank\">Chowan Discovery Group<\/a><br \/>\n2014-02-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:info@chowandiscovery.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marvin T. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director<\/p>\n<p>The Winton Triangle has ties to the subject of the latest Chowan Discovery-nominated marker, that of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedmen%27s_Colony_of_Roanoke_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Roanoke Island Freedmen\u2019s Colony<\/a>. During the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> when the colony existed, several Winton Triangle men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in 1864. In 1865, William David Newsom, a post-war leader in the Winton Triangle, taught there. In 1866, another Triangle leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/chowandiscovery.org\/2012\/09\/17\/winton-triangle-presentation-at-lw-boone-family-reunion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lemuel Washington Boon<\/a>, led the founding of the Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association there.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/chowandiscovery.org\/2014\/02\/25\/a-roanoke-island-colony-remembered\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered Chowan Discovery Group 2014-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Winton Triangle has ties to the subject of the latest Chowan Discovery-nominated marker, that of the Roanoke Island Freedmen\u2019s Colony. During the Civil War when the colony existed, several Winton Triangle men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[11282,17032,8278,8279,879,17033],"class_list":["post-35952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chowan-discovery-group","tag-lemuel-washington-boon","tag-marvin-jones","tag-marvin-t-jones","tag-north-carolina","tag-william-david-newsom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}