This past weekend, June 7th-8th, was scheduled to be the last weekend workdays to complete the Journey To Freedom Heritage Trail of. Under the leadership of future Eagle Scout Mikaeel Martinez Jaka, we finish the trail on Saturday, as well as the volunteers completed laying gravel on the entrance path and the common area where the annual wreath laying ceremony takes place. The African American Burial Ground's is slowly but surely coming together and will soon be on par with other honored sacred burial grounds in Loudoun such as Union Cemetery, Balls Bluff and others. I uploaded 5 pictures from this weekend's workday to the Northern Virginia History Archive and I'm awaiting approval from the administrator to publish them. I plan to include the photos in my online data collections under deeds.
The workday was cancelled on Sunday, because all the entire project was completed on Saturday. However on Sunday morning, I joined Sis Chi McIntyre- Johnson (Arapaho Hertage) for a traditional Native American Ground Blessing. 1000+ years before white men or enslaved Africans arrived in Loudoun,
Native Americans inhabited the sister plantations of Belmont and Coton. It is important to the Loudoun Freedom Center that the entire story of Belmont Plantation is reclaimed, celebrated and told
. #AllHistoryMatters
I see that you did upload photos. It is going to take me some time to work with them to fill out the data, such as title, creator, date, etc. While you filled out one data entry area, you didn't do others.
ReplyDeleteMichelle -- Thanks for permission to use a Belmont cemetery photo in my final project. Are there any photos of the work this past weekend that show the trail? I think I saw people leaving the site around 6:45 p.m. Saturday, but could not get there in time. Thanks.
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