The history of the Sand Hill Indians living on the northern shores of Monmouth County can be traced back to the late 1700s.
Due to relentless land encroachment, Cherokee groups were gradually forced out of their homelands in Georgia, with the Cherokee Richardsons migrating to New Jersey and New York to live with their Lenape cousins, the Reveys. The merging of these two tribes became the Sand Hill Indians, named for a hill on their 15-acre property in Asbury Park.
Join Claire Garland, director of the Sand Hill Indian Historical Association and a Historical Resource Person for the NJ Commission on American Indian Affairs, at 6:00pm on Monday, July 7, at the Main Library and learn more about the history of the Sand Hill Indians in Monmouth County over the past two centuries. Garland, who is also the author of Indian Summer at Sand Hill, will discuss the current efforts being taken to preserve Native American heritage and history. |
