08/14/2025
🚨 History Drop Some Probably Never Heard 🚨
Before Amhurst… before the story you think you know… there was a Black neighborhood in Albemarle called Needmore.
Not a nickname. Not a metaphor. It’s right there on the 1942 map — and almost nobody talks about it.
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📺 The Kingville Project 2025
🎬 Season 8, Episode 14 — “The NeighborHOODS”
As “The Mystery Behind the His-Tory & My Story of Kingville” continues, we step outside Kingville’s borders… into a neighborhood most people have never even heard of.
🟡👀 Introducing: NEEDMORE.
(Yes, that’s the real name — printed in bold on the 1942 Albemarle map.)
📍 On the eastern edge of town — just past where Amhurst Gardens Public Housing stands today — Needmore was a distinct, documented Black neighborhood. A place with families, roots, and history… yet almost erased from modern memory.
🟥 Meanwhile, across town, the 1938 and 1942 maps both mark Kingville (Col.) — proof that these weren’t just dots on paper, but thriving, breathing communities.
💭 And here’s how The Kingville Project started:
Two people. One says, “I thought this was Amhurst!”
The other replies:
1️⃣ “Don’t let anyone else from here know you don’t know the difference between Amhurst & Kingville.”
2️⃣ “Now I’m wondering… who else doesn’t know the difference?”
If folks didn’t even know that… imagine how many have never heard of Needmore.
💡 So what did “Needmore” really need more of?
Opportunity? Access? Recognition? Or maybe just a permanent place in the history books.
🧠 This episode, we dig deeper — because even forgotten neighborhoods deserve to be remembered.
📸 Swipe to see the maps:
1938 — Kingville marked.
1942 — Kingville and Needmore marked.
🎥 Need more of what you don’t know? Watch the full journey:
👉🏾 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3gIfDzRp7dQirGf0ChjinM8MXLyk4ddR&si=xDQrIyaHG2vjgEaX
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