Second Seneca museum to move forward

After an executive session, Seneca City Council committed the city to build its first museum reflecting local African-American history. According to Joel Seavey, clerk-treasurer, the council approved the drawings for the project. Those drawings are now to be sent to the finance committee for action on how the city will fund a project that could cost around $500 thousand dollars. The museum, to be named for the late Bertha Lee Strickland, is conceived as a way to tell the story of the former house worker of the Lunney family, as well as the history of the African-American community in and around Seneca. The museum is to be constructed on the back end of property containing the Lunney Museum—between the blocks of South First and Second streets.