Utica

SEYMOUR GARDENS

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​The Home Realty & Development Company developed Seymour Gardens in 1933.  The subdivision included 176 lots on Riverside, Hughes, Spruce, Cypress, Tamarick, and Horatio Streets, and Lorraine Avenue.  The following spring, an ad in the Observer Dispatch newspaper promised potential homebuyers "good clean country air" in "a healthful location" that was "well restricted, [with] no shacks of any kind permitted ①."

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Deeds in the subdivision contained the following Whites-only racial covenant:

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① Utica Observer-Dispatch, May 6, 1934, 4-,B  Accessed via fultonhistory.com

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