Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered (Alexandria, Virginia)

Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered (Alexandria, Virginia)

Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered is located in the Alexandria African American Heritage Park, a nine-acre memorial park. The park was the site of a historic Black Baptist Cemetery, established in 1885, and later descecrated when the City of Alexandria used the space as a landfill in the early 1960s. Through archaeological excavations, (1985-1992), six headstones were identified and remain in their original location. The park was designed to co-exist with the original landscape of the cemetery and to preserve the wetlands on the site.

Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered includes a group of three stylized bronze trees whose surfaces are etched with names, historical information, and photographs of the African American community in Alexandria; a commemorative grave mound sculpture with limestone supports; and a bronze bookstand. The trees and mound are contained within a circle surrounded by gray flag stone and a semi-circular brick wall. Embedded in the gray flagstone is a red limestone circle, marked with the compass points.

Meadows, Jerome, 1951-

Photographs by Renée Ater

June 17, 1995

EDAW (now AECOM); Norfolk Southern Corporation; Carlyle Development; and The City of Alexandria.

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English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

309 Holland Lane, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314, United States

Sculpture

Varied: 144 in. to 180 in. (365.76 cm. to 457.2 cm.)