Daily News | An African American history trail in Delaware was vandalized weeks after it opened
A newly unveiled African American History Trail at the Iron Hill Museum in Newark, Del., was vandalized over the weekend, causing thousands of dollars in damage just weeks after the trail’s debut.
As part of the trail, Delaware Academy of Science volunteers erected 14 informational signs about the community’s history. But on Sunday, a volunteer who lived nearby was doing grounds maintenance, and saw that nearly all the signs were missing, with some display stands completely ripped out of the ground.Iron Hill Museum workers found about three of the signs broken and thrown into the woods along the trail, and about 10 missing entirely, academy president Robin Broomall said.
“It’s disheartening for the staff and the volunteers we have,” Broomall said. “We worked so hard to have a good display to talk about the history of the Iron Hill region.” Broomall said that the museum does not believe this most recent vandalization of the African American History Trail is racially motivated, saying that “it could have been named any trail at all, and I think this still might have happened.” Instead, she believes the vandal is someone who has targeted the organization in the past.
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