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Portsmouth African Burying Ground

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Portsmouth African Burying Ground Memorial Park 03
Portsmouth African Burying Ground Memorial Park 03

The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. It is the only archeologically verified African burying ground for the time period in New England.The site was discovered in 2003 when construction workers discovered the buried while trying to dig a manhole. Remains of eight individuals were exhumed and determined to be of African descent. Of the eight remains, four were men, one was a female, one a child, and the rest were unable to be determined.

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Portsmouth African Burying Ground
Chestnut Street, Portsmouth

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N 43.075 ° E -70.758888888889 °
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Chestnut Street 65
03801 Portsmouth
New Hampshire, United States
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