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Northshore October 2025
In 1981, housing security nonprofit Wellspring bought a West Gloucester house to serve as its base of operations—and inherited a mystery. In the attic of the building, a traditional, low-ceilinged home built in 1709, the new owners found several photographs. The sepia-toned images included formal portraits and one casual shot of a woman leaning in a doorway. The subjects were all Black people. Wellspring leaders had heard the lore about the house—that it had been given to a formerly enslaved man from the South named Freeman who went on to become a major landowner in the area. But the photos raised questions. Who were these people posed
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