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First Presbyterian Church 189 Church Street, Marietta

Speaker: Tammy Ozier Our 23 August 2022 will be held in-person. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands better known as The Freedmen’s Bureau or just The Bureau was established by the US Federal War Department in 1865 and officially ended in 1872. The Bureau was established to provide relief services to Freedmen (formerly enslaved persons) and Refugees (whites)