STATEN ISLAND, NY --- To bring a different learning experience to youngsters, the Staten Island Community Partnership, 49 Strong and Global Kids have partnered to sponsor a half-day field trip for students at PS 44, Mariner’s Harbor, to the historic Sandy Ground in Rossville on Monday, May 14, 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Sandy Ground, founded around 1830, is the oldest free black settlement in the United States. The youngsters will be taken on a tour inside the Sandy Ground museum where they will learn the history of the freed slaves and free black Maryland oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

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