Portsmouth African Burying Ground Memorial Park

PORTSMOUTH AFRICAN BURYING GROUND MEMORIAL PARK

The African Burying Ground is located at Chestnut Street between Court and State Streets in downtown Portsmouth. If you were to map it using internet mapping products, you could use the address of 97 Chestnut Street which is a building in the middle of the block. The site is an outdoor, public cemetery/park, re-dedicated in 2015.

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