"Here will we take our stand": Weeksville's origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770-1840 -- "Owned and occupied by our own people": Weeksville's growth: family, work, and community, 1840-1860 -- "Shall we fly or shall we resist?": from emigration to the Civil War, 1850-1865 -- "Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women": politics, women's activism, and the roots of Progressive reform, 1865-1910 -- "Cut through and gridironed by streets": physical changes, 1860-1880 -- "Part of this magically growing city": Weeksville's growth and disappearance, 1880-1910 -- "A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists": Weeksville, lost and found, 1910-2010