If you head to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and drive about 10 minutes outside of downtown,

you'll find yourself in a crescent-shaped park on the very northern edge of the city.

It's big, about the size of nine football fields, and all around there are these fantastic views of the water.

You can just chill out in the sun, walk the trails, or enjoy a nice picnic.

But while you're taking in the park, you'll see these five interpretive panels spread out,

each telling facts about this black community that used to reside there. It was called

Afrikville. And even more evident is the two-story yellow building with a red roof and a steeple.

Today, this building is the Africville Museum.

But if we go back over 60 years, this building was Seaview United Baptist Church,

and it was the epicenter of life in Africaville.

When it wasn't in use for church service or Sunday school,

this building was the meeting center for any important political meetings or community gatherings.

Community was especially important in Africaville because the neighborhood received very little, if any,

support from their federal government, from having no paved roads to the lack of running water,

the people of Afriqville were on their own. This lack of support came to a head in the 1960s,

when the Canadian government came and forced every Africville resident to leave, paving the way

for it is now a calm park in northern Halifax. My name is Baudelaire, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we go to Halifax, Nova Scotia to hear the story of the obstacles, the displacement,

and the endurance of Afrikville.

More after this. Throughout American history, we have stories of displacement, particularly black communities,

places like Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Queen City, just out of Washington, D.C.,

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