Site of "Negro Burying Ground - In colonial Portsmouth, segregation applied in death as in life. City officials approved a plan in 1705 that set aside this city block for a "Negro Burying Ground." It was close to town, but pushed to what was then its outer edge. By 1813, houses were built over the site. In October of 2003 city construction workers accidently revealed thirteen wood coffins under one very small area of Chestnut Street, suggesting high density use of space centuries ago. Those burials, along with human remains found scattered in another section of that street, are among a yet-unknown number interred in a larger area including the city's Portsmouth African Burying Ground Memorial Park.
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