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African Burying Ground Memorial
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Barbara
December 5, 2016
moving, important, and poetic; don't miss it
Joyce
July 26, 2020
An interesting piece of history located in downtown Portsmouth.
Celina
July 2, 2019
This place of honor is very special to locals because it honors those who helped to build our community in its earliest days but who were then buried and forgotten. Until 2003, when contractors on a City improvement project revealed thirteen deteriorating wooden coffins during routine infrastructure upgrades. Further excavations and recovery of skeletal remains confirmed the street to be part of the site of the long forgotten "Negro Burying Ground". The city brought in a team of experts--archaeologists, geneticists and forensic scientists who estimated, based on available census records, that the site could hold as many as two hundred people of African descent. The African Burying Ground Memorial Park includes art designed by sculptor and artist Jerome Meadows and local landscape architect Roberta Woodburn, the intent of this sacred space is to connect the people of Portsmouth today with those buried here long ago. On the morning of May 23, 2015, pallbearers carried the caskets into the memorial park. A reburial ceremony was held that included African customs likely familiar to those being interred. Each morning an unknown person puts flowers into the hands of Mother Africa, year-round.
This place of honor is very special to locals because it honors those who helped to build our community in its earliest days but who were then buried and forgotten. Until 2003, when contractors on a City improvement project revealed thirteen deteriorating wooden coffins during routine infrastructure…
Michele
March 12, 2018
a very moving memorial to a recently discovered slave burying ground
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386 State Street
Portsmouth, NH