what north carolina town is the oldest one founded by african-americans?

Answer 1

Princeville, North Carolina...

Princeville is a town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and the oldest town incorporated by African-Americans in the United States. It was established by freed slaves after the Civil War and incorporated in 1885. It is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Answer 2

Princeville, North Carolina was founded in 1865 on the banks of the Tar River by formerly enslaved Africans at the end of the Civil War. Chartered in 1885, it is the nation's first independently governed African American community. In 1999, much of Princeville as lost when flooding from back-to-back hurricanes devastated the city. The city's 2,100 residents, many of them descendants of the original settlers, found their homes submerged under water for two weeks. They lost virtually everything.

The story of the Princeville flood is one of government neglect and even malfeasance. Even before the flooding, the waterfront town had been under pressure by developers and land speculators to sell its land and relocate residents further inland. After the disaster, residents were then pressured by both federal and local government to abandon the area. Residents were suspicious—particularly when similarly situated white communities in the region were receiving large sums of money for rebuilding, not relocation.

In Princeville it was a different story. Some six months after the storm, only 100 of the city's 875 families had moved back into their homes. More than 300 families still lived at the sprawling temporary camper park nicknamed "Camp Depression," or "FEMAville," after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which set up the camper park immediately after the flooding. Here the displaced made do with makeshift housing on a landfill next door to a women's prison outside of the City of Rocky Mount. Almost a year later, many were still waiting for assistance. The nearly 260 families that left the campsite were still living in campers, though this time on their own property as they began the slow process of rebuilding.

Answer 3

kneegrowville!