Meredith Linn, associate professor and director of master’s studies at BGC, began researching Seneca Village, the once thriving free African American community that was displaced in 1857 to make way for Central Park, while she was a graduate student at Columbia University. She coauthored the 2018 archaeological site report of Seneca Village with project leaders and scholars Nan A. Rothschild, Diana diZerega Wall, and Cynthia Copeland, and she is currently cowriting a book on the area with Rothschild and Wall. So naturally, when Barnard professor Gergely Baics and his collaborators, Leah Meisterlin and Myles Zhang, began discussing the idea of a website that would visualize Seneca Village as it might have looked before it was destroyed, they asked Linn to join their team. Learn more about the website, which launched this year on Juneteenth (June 19), a day that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the US, in this article written for the Barnard College magazine.