East Marshall Street Well Project
The East Marshall Street Well Project at Virginia Commonwealth University addresses the discovery of human remains and artifacts from the 19th century found in an abandoned well on the MCV Campus in 1994. The project aims to ensure the remains, primarily of African descent, receive appropriate study, memorialization, and reburial, reflecting the dignity they were denied in life and death.
Memorialization and interment
See the latest steps taken to memorialize and inter the individuals whose remains were discovered in the East Marshall Street Well.
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Research
Follow the progress of researchers as they study the human remains and artifacts discovered in the East Marshall Street Well.
Community Engagement
The EMSW Project seeks to reinvigorate community and VCU faculty involvement in public education, community research and ongoing public communication around the history of structural and medical racism.