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tdennee (tdennee)
Board Administrator
Username: tdennee
Post Number: 9
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007 - 09:12 am: | |
The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery are pleased and proud to welcome you back to our revamped website. In addition to a new look, we have a new format for our discussion boards and new research sources, including revised files on manumissions and slave importations; a transcription of a fragment of the 1865 census of African Americans in Alexandria County; Alexandria County slave births from the 1850s, etc. We have set up a new section for a different sort of historic resource, consisting of articles or blurbs on local families and individuals, consisting or new research or historic excerpts. We welcome contributions of family histories or other articles on Alexandria figures, prominent or obscure.
We would like to dedicate the relaunch of our website to the late Clarence Cooper, a board member of the Friends and our chaplain.
We would like to thank Ruth Reeder for coordination, Dr. Steven Shephard and Andrew Flora for the design of our new logo, and our incredibly hardworking and quick webmaster, Tamara Mihailovic. Many thanks to Dr. Pamela Cressey, Wesley Pippenger, T. Michael Miller and Suzannah Foster for contributions of important research. As always, we would like to thank the Alexandria Black History Museum, Alexandria Archaeology, and the Alexandria Library Local History and Special Collections for their ongoing research into Alexandria's freed people and for their continued moral, intellectual, and material support.
Finally, we would like to give special thanks to our previous webmaster, Hollis Wickman, who single-handedly set up our original site in 2000, completing a year-long public education effort that resulted in not only the site, but also a historic highway marker at the cemetery and a color brochure. Hollis created our site quickly and uncomplainingly and even provided us with some bells and whistles. He also arranged the web hosting and even generously paid for hosting over the years out of his own pocket! The timing was crucial, as the site went up just as the Friends found ourselves lobbying the Alexandria City Council for the purchase of the cemetery and its conversion to a memorial park. The web helped us reach supporters all over the country, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Today's relaunch comes just in time for the rededication of the cemetery in preparation for demolition of the modern structures there and for the design of the park. We hope you enjoy the website and continue to support our commemoration and research efforts. |
admin (admin)
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 09:40 am: | |
Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery is using a new discussion board format. All of the original messages have been copied into the new board. As a result, the messages have the current date and time in their posting information. To refer to the original posting date and time, please review the text of the message.
Thank you for your understanding and we hope that you enjoy the new discussion board format. |
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