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Final Report ♦ Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force <br />Stories/ Histories <br />Land along Rogers Road area became the property of <br />freed blacks after the Civil War. <br />A number of family have figured prominently in the <br />history of the neighborhood —the Hogans, the Nunns, <br />the Rogers, the Purefoys, and the Walkers. <br />Livelihood in the community came both from without <br />and from within. At various times, there was <br />agriculture, a saw mill, and interneighborhood sales of <br />milk and eggs. <br />Vegetable gardens, cows, and chickens provided food <br />for residents, and the surpluses were shared. <br />Two significant houses the Lloyd— Rogers house dating <br />from c. 1850 and the log house built in the 1930s <br />remain in the study area. <br />9 Rogers Road Small Area Plan Recommendations <br />