For more than 150 years, people have told the tale of "Mother" Priscilla Baltimore, a former slave who is said to have led 11 families of fugitive and free African Americans to establish a free community in what is now Brooklyn, Ill.
In September, members of the the Illinois State Archeological Survey set out see if they could find evidence to back up the story.
On Monday, "St. Louis on the Air" host Don Marsh talked with Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio's science, environment and health reporter, about the dig and what it did (and didn't) find. LaCapra will have more on the dig on Tuesday.
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