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TIL of the once upper class Black community of Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, Florida. Chosen by city officials to be levelled - to build a multi-lane expressway through it during the 1950s and '60s - the community, once known for its elegance, sits devastated, largely boarded up and overgrown today.

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