But now, there's hope federal money can save it. The center's future was thrown into question. Residents rallied to save their staple of neighborhood identity, generations of memory and national history. The center closed in October 2021, as failing infrastructure stacked onto pandemic shutdown. La Mott Community Center, over 12 miles from Center City, shares ground with what was once the largest federal training camp for Black troops in the American Civil War: Camp William Penn. For those who knew it that morning, they crossed the same land soldiers marched. Several state representatives filed into the stone building at one corner of Willow and Sycamore avenues. And this is a small neighborhood, a tight, half-dozen blocks tucked north of Philadelphia. It has anchored a quiet, middle-class, predominately African American community for decades. Philly Burbs (USA Today Network), Kelly PowersĬHELTENHAM, Pa.- They may have never heard of it.įor one thing, these doors hadn’t been open to the public in roughly three years.
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