Category: Sussex

A road in Kings County has a new name.

The New Brunswick Black History Society helped pick Harriet O’Ree’s moniker replace the name of Negro Brook Road.

Her name was chosen when it was found on a West Sussex census, done in 1851.

She was listed as being the 48-year-old (quote) “Negro servant” for Jacob Snider, a widowed American farmer living in Kings County with his kids.

It’s being suggested that the names Negro Point and Negro Point Break Water, in Hodges Point west side; and Negro Head in Lorneville, be changed; as well.

The Greater Sussex-Hampton Region Economic Development Strategy is complete.

Bill Thomson and NuFocus will be making a public presentation of that this Wednesday evening at 6:30 in the Wesley Hall of the Sanders Irving Chapel at Kingswood University.

The strategy was put in place to attract business and industry to the Sussex area, following the closure of the PCS Mines in Penobsquis last winter.