Thomas Kincheon

Co-founder of Kincheonville, the freedmen settlement the street runs through

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Austin renames Plantation Road to honor Black newspaper publisher

Historical figure; settlement no longer exists as a distinct community

A street in South Austin named Plantation Road is now Tommie Lee Wyatt Lane. The new signs went up October 14, honoring the co-founder and longtime publisher of The Villager, a newspaper that covered Black life in Austin for more than five decades.

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