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09001.EV – In this photo the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society (JCBHPS) presents a portrait of Major Martin Robison Delany to the Jefferson County Museum in Charles Town. Pictured left to right: Bettie Byrer, Sue Collins, Nathaniel Downing, Sr., Jim Taylor, Mrs. J. Blackwell Davis and James Alvin Tolbert. The event took place in 2000. The JCBHPS has formed on September 18, 2000 at a meeting held at the St. Philip Episcopal Paris Hall. Officers elected were: President, James L. Taylor; Vice-President, Nathaniel Downing; Secretary James Tolbert; Treasurer, George C. Rutherford.