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Saturday Growers; Bohemian Market
Sat Nov 22 9:00 am
@ 17th Street Farmers' Market Farm fresh and homegrown straight from the region's farms to your home. Homemade and ha...
Sunday Vintage Market
Sun Nov 23 9:00 am
@ 17th Street Farmers' Market Antiques, collectibles, jewelry and fine arts and crafts. Free admission. For more i...
open mic @ Poe's Pub
Tue Nov 25 8:00 pm
acoustic open mic at Poe's Pub on East Main, hosted by Jim Daab. Sign up is at 8:30, music starts at 9, goes until clos...



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Savor hosts pre-holiday shopping party. Thu, Nov 20, 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Locally made jewelry, handbags and accessories, wine gift tags (and the wine), holiday cookies, will be available for purchase or pre-order. Enjoy appetizers. Cash bar. 804-52-SAVOR



tagged with: Negro Burial Ground


October 3, 2008

6th Annual Commemoration of Gabriel’s Rebellion and the Burial Ground for Negroes

The 6th Annual Commemoration of Gabriel’s Rebellion and the Burial Ground for Negroes has been announced for Friday, October 10, at Asbury United Methodist Church (324 N. 29th Street). Hosted by the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, The Defenders for Freedom Justice & Equality and the United Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) Prosser-Truth Division #456. [via]

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September 20, 2008

council to look into acquiring Negro Burial Ground

The agenda for the next city council meeting (9/22) has items of local interest:

Res. No. 2008-R84 (Patron: Vice-President McQuinn) - To *** determine the feasibility of the City acquiring, developing, and maintaining the site of the Negro Burial Ground *** to be managed by the Richmond Slave Trail Commission ***.

September 12, 2008

Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission to hold open public forums on memorializing Richmond Negro Burial Grounds

The Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission will hold open forum public community forum meetings to hear and discuss ideas from Richmond citizens on how to properly memorialize the site of an historic Richmond Negro Burial Grounds located in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond. Land on this site was recently identified and set aside by Virginia Commonwealth University. The entire Richmond community is invited and encouraged to attend and participate in this important community discussion.

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September 9, 2008

ACORN announces 2008 Golden Hammer special award winners

The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods (ACORN) has announced the Golden Hammer winners for 2008. The winners of the 6 different awards are: Rachel Flynn, Calder Loth, Historic Housing LLC (David White, Larry Schifflett, Louis Salomonsky), Three Strands Management (Gray Oliver, Cynthia Oliver and Tory Smith), Better Housing Coalition (T.K. Somanath), and Shanna Merola.

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July 26, 2008

location of Burial Ground for Negroes confirmed

negro burial ground

VCU and the Richmond Slave Trail Commission have confirmed the location of a burial ground for slaves and free blacks covered by Interstate 95 and a parking lot on the VCU/MCV campus.

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January 30, 2008

Tell Me Where You’re Marching, Tell Me Where You’re Bound

While photographing pre-Civil War sites around Richmond, Shanna Merola discovered that many of the structures used during the city’s slave trade have been erased from the landscape, with few markers to indicate their historical significance. With a pinhole camera, she captured images of the Manchester Docks, Lumpkin’s Jail, and the Negro Burial Ground or, rather, the asphalt parking lots and empty fields that now cover these landmarks. Merola will exhibit her work at the Valentine Richmond History Center in a show opening Feb.1@6PM.

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