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 ...

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 ...