Tomorrow, Wednesday July 12th 2017, from 5:30-8pm on the second floor of the Bon Secours Football Training Center (2401 West Leigh Street, Richmond VA), a company hired by the city, SmithGroupJJR, is holding a public hearing on plans to memorialize slavery-related sites in the city.
Currently, there are two plans, both pertaining to Shockoe Bottom. The city plan would preserve the Lumpkin's Jail site, a small plot of land. A community plan calls for a 9-acre Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park, which would include the Lumpkin's site, the African Burial Ground, and two additional blocks which were the site of several additional slave jails and trader's offices.
For more information and to RSVP, see this link.
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