which she was closely involved, was very active in helping escapees, as were a network of other strategically-placed AME churches. After the end of the US Civil War in 1865, Priscilla Baltimore was active in social and religious organizations helping freed slaves coming north. In 1873, Brooklyn voted to incorporate, the first American majority-black community to do so. When Priscilla Baltimore died in 1882, there were two articles written about her in the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, an unusual amount of coverage for a black woman at that time. The location of her unmarked grave was found again in 2008. The Brooklyn Historical Society fundraised and installed a headstone in 2010. Brooklyn is the only known black town founded in the US in the 1800s that survives as a living community. Priscilla Baltimore is still locally remembered and respected as the founding mother of the town. References External links Sarah Early. Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early. Nashville, TN: American Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Union, 1894 Free Negroes African-American history of Illinois 1801 births 1882 deaths People from Brooklyn, Illinois 19th-century African-American women People from Bourbon County, Kentucky American abolitionists African-American activists American women activists Activists from Kentucky Activists from Illinois