African Burial Ground National Monument
National Monument · New York, New York
The site of the largest and earliest known cemetery of free and enslaved Africans in North America, found by accident in 1991 when a federal office block was excavated on Broadway and the diggers hit human remains six metres down. ⚠ AN ESTIMATED 15,000 PEOPLE WERE BURIED IN THE WIDER GROUND. Four hundred and nineteen sets of remains were exhumed, studied, and reinterred here in 2003 after a campaign led by New York's Black community.
290 Broadway, New York, New York, 10007, United States
⚠ FREE — both the outdoor memorial and the visitor centre, and all ranger programming. ⚠ THE VISITOR CENTRE IS INSIDE THE FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING AT 290 BROADWAY, keeps LIMITED, GENERALLY WEEKDAY HOURS, requires federal screening and has been subject to building closures — CHECK nps.gov/afbg BEFORE TRAVELLING. ⚠ THE OUTDOOR MEMORIAL on Duane Street usually keeps a wider schedule and works alone if the centre is shut. Annual ancestral commemoration and libation ceremonies are open to the public. ⚠ HOURS NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS FILE.
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