UGA has completed the final design of the Baldwin Hall Memorial. The move comes after the recommendation of a campus and community task force. The memorial is to honor the individuals whose remains were discovered at the Baldwin Hall site during construction in November 2015. They were reinterred at Oconee Hill Cemetery in march 2017, in accordance with guidance from the State Archaeologist’s Office.
Oglethorpe County quarry is donating much of the granted to be used for the monument. The facility has been owned by a Georgia African-American family for more than a century. Part of the Millie Long estate in Carlton, the quarry will contribute more than 35,000 pounds of granite for memorial. It will be located on the south end of the front lawn of Baldwin hall.
The university held a memorial service to commemorate their lives, and a granite marker was placed at the gravesite. Acknowledgment in the form of a plaque also was placed inside the new entrance of the Baldwin Hall addition.
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