Today marks the 125th anniversary of the chapel at Richmond Hill. The beautiful sanctuary was built in 1894 during the Jim Crow era, a time of legally sanctioned racial segregation, terror and violence in the United States. The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument that was put on nearby Libby Hill Read more…
Click the video to listen to the song! I’ve got a babe but shall I keep him‘Twill come the day when I’ll be weepin’But how can I love him any lessThis little babe upon my breastYou can take my bodyYou can take my bonesYou can take my bloodBut not my Read more…
Here is a summary from archaeologist Tim Roberts of Cultural Resource Analysts of what he and his colleague Nick Arnhold found today from their shovel tests! Let us know what comments or questions you have for the archaeologists! Another exciting day of shovel testing at Richmond Hill! We collected some Read more…
We had a great first dig! This from archaeologist Tim Roberts from Cultural Resource Analysts: “This morning we excavated one square, 50-x-50-centimeter-wide shovel test pit about 15 meters northeast of the slave house, careful to stay out of the beautiful garden plots. While we didn’t identify any archaeological features, we Read more…
Archeologist Tim Roberts discusses choices made by enslaved people during our first dig at the slave house at Richmond Hill.