Episode #11 (Zach Doleshal and Jordan Martinek)

May 5, 2016 · 28m 9s
Episode #11 (Zach Doleshal and Jordan Martinek)
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In this podcast, host Jeffrey L. Littlejohn speaks with historian Zach Doleshal and student Jordan Martinek about their recent public history course, "Recovering New Harmony." To the immediate east of...

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In this podcast, host Jeffrey L. Littlejohn speaks with historian Zach Doleshal and student Jordan Martinek about their recent public history course, "Recovering New Harmony."

To the immediate east of Huntsville, Texas, just north of Highway 190, lie the remains of Grant’s Colony, aka New Harmony. Named after George Washington Grant, an entrepreneur and landowner in Walker County, the settlement was a rare phenomenon in Reconstruction Era Texas. For it was an attempt by a white southerner of the planter class to implement the promise of racial integration and create a rationalized agricultural community. Entrenched cultural attitudes frustrated Grant’s attempt to recruit white laborers, however, as very few took him up on his offer of employment, housing, and education. Freed slaves, though, came to the settlement in significant numbers and created a vibrant community that lasted until the 1920s. When, after a slow demise, it became part of the Sam Houston National Forest in 1936, the colony's history and even its location were silenced by the past.
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