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Historic Overtown Folklife Village

Overtown used to be known as the "Harlem of the South. The project seeks to preserve and to rennovate his toric structures. Some of the most important are already gon including the Sir John Hotel at Sixth St and 3rd Ave which hosted Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, and Josephine Baker. But others remain. There are, in various stages of renovation,