The Eatonville Community Redevelopment Agency is inviting longtime residents and others with memories of the historic Club Eaton to come and share them at an event Wednesday evening.
The “restoration visioning session” is at St. Lawrence AME Church in the historic Black township of Eatonville beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The old club at East Kennedy Boulevard and W Street has been partially demolished, due to a collapsed roof, to get ready for the restoration using a $1 million grant from the Florida Division of Historical Resources.
The club goes back to at least 1950 and was one of scores of Black-owned venues, called the Chitlin’ Circuit, where Black musicians, including legends of jazz, blues and early rock-and-roll, could perform when they were barred by segregation and Jim Crow laws from other places.
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