Known for her hospitality and great food, Lucretia Marchbanks just may have been the first black woman in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Marchbanks was born a slave in Putman County, Tennessee, on March 25, 1832. She belonged to slave owner Martin Marchbanks, whose father had settled east of Algood, Tennessee. Lucretia's father was […]

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