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John Benson
John Jackson Benson: the Black American who Built a City from Land He Worked on as Slave
Before Lake Martin in Alabama became a renowned tourist attraction, there was a small black community near Kowaliga Creek. The community may have been buried when Lake Martin was dammed to create hydroelectric power to Alabama, but, the history of the black community built by John Benson, lives on. His son built on the legacy…
