Editing Whitesboro-Burleigh, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Whitesboro was founded about 1901 by the Equitable Industrial Association, which had prominent black American investors including [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], the educator [[Booker T. Washington]] and [[George Henry White]], the leading investor and namesake. He was an attorney who had moved to Philadelphia after serving as the last black Republican congressman representing {{ushr|NC|2}}. White and his fellow entrepreneurs wanted to create a self-reliant community for blacks, without the discrimination faced in the southern states. Shares in the planned community were sold to African Americans from North and South Carolina and Virginia.

In 2006, the Johnson Family Historical Trust discovered the value of its original deed to Whitesboro property from the George H. White Realty Company. It has been called one of "America's Untold Treasures" by the renowned African-American appraiser Phillip Merrill. The Johnson Family Historical Trust holds rare items important to Whitesboro, such as a 1936 formerly owned by James L. Johnson, a nationally recognized ham radio operator. His radios are of interest to Whitesboro and national history in technology.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}

There are more than 50 known and appraised artifacts from the original investors of the town that planned to be featured in Whitesboro in the few years to come. This summer a dig for national history will take place to uncover more artifacts at various historical sites in Whitesboro hosted by the Johnson Family Historical Trust.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}