The Kingdom of The Happy Land

06/02/2024

https://wncmagazine.com/feature/happy_land

05/04/2017

https://kingdomofthehappyland.wordpress.com/history/

Nearly 150 years ago, right after the end of the Civil War, a small band of freed slaves left Mississippi headed northward in search of a dream made possible by their newly found freedom. As they p…

05/04/2017

http://hendersonheritage.com/davis-slave-cemetery-kingdom-of-the-happy-land/

Near the intersection of old U.S. 25 South and Bob’s Creek Road another group of old field stones was discovered in the mid-1990s.

05/04/2017

http://www.smliv.com/features/the-kingdom-of-the-happy-land/

Sometime before the end of the Civil War, when “Father Abraham” had abolished slavery, thousands of African Americans found themselves facing an uncertain future. They were called “freedmen,” but how would they live?

05/04/2017

https://mountainx.com/news/community-news/0207happyland-php/

There is a happy land, far, far away ... Come to that happy land, come, come away. “There is a Happy Land,” 1838 hymn by Andrew Young High above the tiny Henderson County town of Tuxedo, on a knoll where every step is cushioned by a thick growth of turkey-foot fern, Ed Bell stops in…

05/04/2017

From Beth Beasly's Blog. In the photo: Ed Bell whose family owned the property now. It's now listed as KINGDOM OF THE HAPPY LAND FARMS, LLC.
http://bravelilies.blogspot.com/2012/02/kingdom-of-happy-land.html

I'd been wanting for a long time to write about the Kingdom of the Happy Land--a post Civil War settlement of freed slaves in Tuxedo, N.C. ...