Lawnside is a historically Black community that was formerly known as Snow Hill and Free Haven, according to the New Jersey League of Municipalities. The Peter Mott House in Lawnside became an important stop on the Underground Railroad and has been preserved as a museum by the Lawnside Historical Society.

Dawn Hines was notified at work that someone spray painted a graphic, racist message on her backyard fence. Her neighbors are rallying around her and condemning the incident.

Residents in a historically Black community in Camden County were upset after racist graffiti was discovered on a fence at a woman's home, officials said. The incident happened in a neighborhood in Lawnside,