Most former slaves in the South, meanwhile, became sharecroppers during the Reconstruction period, leasing plots of land from their former masters in exchange for a percentage of the crop yield. By 1880, more than 80 percent of southern blacks had become sharecroppers.
WHAT: The southbound I-95 ramp to Key Highway (Exit 55) will be closed overnight. The detour will direct motorists from southbound I-95 to Caton Avenue (Exit 50), to northbound I-95, to Key Highway (Exit 55). The northbound I-95 ramp to Russell Street (Exit 52) will be closed overnight. The detour will direct motorists from northbound I-95 to Martin Luther King Boulevard, to Lee Street, to Russell Street. The northbound I-95 ramp to Washington Boulevard (Exit 51) will be closed overnight.
3100 Emerson Avenue â¢ Parkersburg, West Virginia. From the north (I-77S): Take Exit 179, Emerson Avenue. Continue approximately three miles to the fourth traffic light. The library is near 32st St. - turn left into the parking lot (rear of the library).