Years in the making, the highly-anticipated Anson Street African Burial Memorial is a new fountain that represents centuries of Charleston history.
The Dec. 14 debut of the ambitious, million-dollar project by Charleston Gaillard Center gathered community leaders and members in the hundreds for an opening and dedication. First announced in 2019, the project in recent months had faced delays due to a change of its location on Gaillard property that affected city approvals.
The memorial fountain commemorates the site of the reinterment of 36 enslaved Africans and African Americans originally buried nearby in the 1700s. Their remains were discovered in 2013 during the renovation of the Charleston Gaillard Center. In 2019, they were reinterred in a vault on the center’s grounds near Anson Street…