African Burying Ground
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African Burying Ground is a historic site in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Mount Agamenticus stands 210 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Vigilance, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Coastal Byway runs past it.
The story
The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th-century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. It is the only archeologically verified African burying ground for the time period in New England. The site was discovered in 2003 when construction workers discovered the buried while trying to dig a manhole. Remains of eight individuals were exhumed and determined to be of African descent. Of the eight remains, four were men, one was a female, one a child, and the rest were unable to be determined.
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Wikidata Q97357199, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- On the Coastal Byway
- 9.4 mi off the Independence Byway
- 19.2 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
- 25.5 mi off the Branch River Valley Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- John Paul Jones House: 0.1 mi
- Discover Portsmouth: 0.1 mi
- Moffatt-Ladd House Museum: 0.3 mi
- Warner House Museum: 0.3 mi
- Strawbery Banke Museum: 0.3 mi
- Haven Park: 0.2 mi
- Aldrich Park: 0.3 mi
- Rock Street Playground: 0.3 mi
- Goodwin Park: 0.3 mi
- Prescott Park: 0.4 mi
- Vigilance: 0.0 mi
- Lafayette Trail: 0.1 mi
- Horse Chestnut: 0.3 mi
- Fishermen's Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Sailors and Soldiers Monument: 0.8 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 1.3 mi
- Boatswain Hill: 1.9 mi
- Hobbs Hill: 2.0 mi
- Peverly Hill: 2.3 mi
- Bartlett Hill: 2.9 mi
- Kittery Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Cook Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Creek Farm Reservation: 1.5 mi
- Sagamore Creek Headlands: 1.5 mi
- Urban Forestry Center: 1.8 mi
- Pocket Garden: 0.2 mi
- Goodwin Garden: 0.3 mi
- Liberty Gardens: 0.3 mi
- Victory Gardens: 0.3 mi
- Presscott Park Formal Garden: 0.4 mi
- Wallis Sands Beach: 3.6 mi
- Pirates Cove Beach: 3.9 mi
- Rye North Beach: 4.5 mi
- Foss Beach: 4.7 mi
- Crescent Beach: 4.8 mi
- Chestnut Street Arch: 0.1 mi
- Fisherman’s Luck: 0.4 mi
- My Mother the Wind: 0.5 mi
- Great Blue Heron and Cormorant Sculpture: 0.6 mi
- Big Easy Chair: 0.9 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Cruises: 0.3 mi
- Fort Constitution Historic Site: 2.5 mi
- Triple Giant Slides: 3.0 mi
- Take Flight: 4.7 mi
- Wagon: 6.8 mi
- Piscassic Falls: 9.6 mi
- Second Falls: 9.7 mi
- Packer's Falls: 9.9 mi
- Great Falls: 11.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 11.4 mi
- Dover Bluff: 10.0 mi
- Coffin's Cut: 10.4 mi
- York Cliffs: 11.9 mi
- Bald Head Cliff: 13.6 mi
- Sheep's Rock: 15.4 mi
- Fort McClary Picnic Area: 2.6 mi
- Birthday Bay: 2.9 mi
- Front Pavilion: 7.1 mi
- Scamman Pavilion: 7.2 mi
- 4H Pavilion: 7.3 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 10.8 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 11.0 mi
- Seabrook Rest Area: 14.5 mi
- I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 14.9 mi
- Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 21.6 mi
- Marine Safety Detachment: 2.5 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Light: 2.5 mi
- Cape Neddick "Nubble" Lighthouse: 10.5 mi
- Front Range Light: 19.0 mi
- Jailhouse Spring: 11.7 mi
- Two Sisters Spring: 14.2 mi
- Lion's Spring: 18.5 mi
- Rail Spring: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of African Burying Ground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Agamenticus | NNE 18° | 210 m | 10.8 mi |
| Third Hill | N 351° | 104 m | 7.0 mi |
| Horse Hills | NNE 15° | 98 m | 9.3 mi |
| Groundnut Hill | NNE 30° | 93 m | 10.8 mi |
| Stratham Hill | WSW 250° | 88 m | 7.0 mi |
| Great Hill | NNW 346° | 87 m | 6.3 mi |
| Jewell Hill | WSW 246° | 81 m | 7.5 mi |
| Raitt Hill | N 350° | 74 m | 6.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:43 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:25 | 16:12 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 27 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenland, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/456208604
Day trips start here
- Portsmouth · 0 mi
- York · 8 mi
- Dover · 10 mi
- Ogunquit · 14 mi
- Amesbury · 17 mi
- Newburyport · 19 mi
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