Support Your Park Groups, associations, volunteers, and everyday park visitors all have the potential to contribute in some way to the protection of our national treasures. If you are interested in doing more to support the African Burial Ground National Monument and other National Park Service sites, you have many park support opportunities to choose from.

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A Sacred Space in Manhattan

From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York. Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building.


In order to better tell the story of our site, the GSA created a series of artworks that are the focus of ranger led tours. To learn more about them, read this information on our Commemorative Artwork.

 

Handmade ornaments representing nine national parks in the New York metropolitan area were prominently displayed on the official 2007 White House Christmas Tree.