Community members celebrate return of Historic Freedmen's Town bricks

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Months after unauthorized construction work damaged historically significant bricks in a Fourth Ward neighborhood, crews have finished re-installing them.

In November, construction workers tore up the bricks as part of work to replace aging sewer and power lines, damaging some of them.

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Last week, crews reinstalled them after they had been removed, cleaned and stored.



The bricks were installed and laid by freed slaves. They carry a long history in Houston.