The park is designed to highlight and memorialize the experience of enslaved Americans and the fight for freedom in Harris County.
Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis unveiled designs for Remembrance Park, a new "multi-sensory destination" on the Buffalo Bayou in Houston dedicated to illuminating and understanding the legacy of enslavement and freedom movements in the United States.
According to a press release from the county, "The park transforms a place shaped by history into a living civic space dedicated to learning, remembrance, gathering and continued engagement."
The park will include historical markers memorializing four men who were lynched in Harris County. "Inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative's Community Remembrance Project, the markers ensure these lives and stories remain part of Houston's civic memory and affirm that remembrance and truth-telling are essential to understanding shared history."
According to the press release, "The connective tissue of the park is a series of Hush Harbors – protected spaces that merge shade, planted mounds, seating, sculpture and water. The Hush Harbors reference secret places of worship and fellowship that became popular during Antebellum America for African Americans."
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