African Burial Ground Curation Management Plan and Recommendations

Summary

GSA, Northeast and Caribbean Region, sought assistance from the US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) to assist them with the long-term curation of the associated records generated from investigations conducted at the African Burial Ground (ABG) in Manhattan, New York City. During the preliminary phases for the construction of a new building, archaeologists discovered a large historic cemetery of African Americans dating to the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries. Once the the African Burial Ground Archives Project Feasibility Study and Condition Assessment for General Services Administration was completed, a reasonably accurate estimate of the volume of the final African Burial Ground Collection could be made.

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• USACE (MCX-CMAC) - Other Reports

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Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Landowner(s): General Services Administration Northeast and Caribbean Region New York, New York

Sponsor(s): General Services Administration Northeast and Caribbean Region New York, New York

Repository(s): McKim Building, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manhattan, New York City, NY; Langston Hughes Building, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manhattan, New York City, NY; Schomburg Building, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manhattan, New York City, NY

Prepared By(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Submitted To(s): General Services Administration Northeast and Caribbean Region New York, New York

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