Richmond’s History of Enslavement on Display in Shockoe Design

Richmond’s History of Enslavement on Display in Shockoe Design

Waterstreet Studio creates a landscape plan for historic site of former jail and two forgotten African burial grounds. By Kim O’Connell  On a typical weekday, the historic Main Street Station in Richmond, Virginia, is a blur of motion. Passenger and freight trains screech past regularly while traffic flows like water on nearby Interstate 95. Only yards away, however, sits a site of noticeable stillness—the former Lumpkin’s Jail, where thousands …