tagged with: Negro Burial Ground
February 25, 2009
finding Lumpkin’s Jail and locating the Burial Ground for Negroes
The Virginia Historical Society invites the community to attend Hidden Things Brought to Light: Finding Lumpkin’s Jail and Locating the Burial Ground for Negroes. The free event will be held this Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
“The goal of this conference is to provide a venue where members of the public can get accurate, historical information about Lumpkin’s Jail and the Negro Burial Ground,” said Jeffrey Ruggles, Virginia Historical Society curator of prints and photographs and author of The Unboxing of Henry Brown. “There is a lot of myth and emotion surrounding these two sites. We want people to have the correct information to start a conversation about the past and the future.”
December 7, 2008
You are parking your car in a lot that was built over a historic cemetery.
From a flyer being left on cars in the VCU parking lot. For more info, check out the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project.
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]
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.
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.
July 26, 2008
location of Burial Ground for Negroes confirmed
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.
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.