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Historic Deerfield Looks to Shine Light on Untold History with Memorial Plaques

WSP · Oct 12, 2022 ·

Pat Wilson Pheanious, co-chair of the Witness Stones Project’s board of directors, speaks to her involvement with the memorial markers installed in Old Deerfield that commemorate people who were enslaved there. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ

By Chris Larabee in the Greenfield Recorder on October 12, 2022

DEERFIELD — Up and down Old Main Street, houses from the Colonial era still stand, now turned into educational opportunities by Historic Deerfield in an effort to share the town’s rich history.

That history, however, didn’t always consist of the full representation, until Wednesday morning.

In partnership with the Witness Stones Project, Historic Deerfield unveiled 19 bronze memorial plaques outside 12 houses to commemorate the enslaved men, women and children whose stories are often untold or buried by the sands of time. By the mid-18th century, enslaved people lived in more than one-third of the houses on Old Main Street. Continue reading.

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