Timbuctoo, NJ was established in 1826 as a free Black community. Guy Weston of the Timbuctoo Historical Society said this neighborhood’s history tells the story of Black people buying land and ...
Hardy was referring to the Timbuctoo Cemetery, which was founded in 1854 as part of the Zion Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal African Church. It's also the only above-ground evidence of this historic ...