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    Prince Spears Legacy of Local Building to the Black Communities
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Apr 7, 2015
    • 2 min

    Prince Spears Legacy of Local Building to the Black Communities

    In the early 20th century, a black man had a successful career in Georgetown and Goldsboro as an architect, builder and brick mason. Georgetown and Goldsboro were black settlements now incorporated into the city limits of Sanford, FL. Goldsboro was the second Florida town incorporated by black citizens, nearby Eatonville in Orange County was the 1st. Shortly after arriving in Sanford, Prince W. Spears was commissioned  by Reverend W.H.Brown in 1910 to design and build the thi
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