This is a replica of the Liberty Bell. Mark and I found it funny that it had a painted “crack.”
Holy Rosary Cathedral
Near here in 1820 the first Catholic Church in Tennessee was built by Irish Catholic workers then building a bridge over Cumberland River. In 1830 a brick structure known as Holly Rosary Cathedral succeeded the frame building. Here Bishop R.P. Miles, first Bishop of Tennessee was installed October 15, 1847. Holy Rosary Church became St. John’s Hospital and Orphanage. The site sold to the state in 1857.
We Must Never Forget!
The People of Tennesse dedicate these six trees as a living memorial to the six million innocent Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust 1939 – 1945. Let all the generations remember…so that a holocaust shall never again occur. Let all the generations remember…so that a holocaust shall never again occur.
Governor Lamar Alexander
Commission on the Commemoration of the Holocaust.
Lest We Forget: The Middle Passage
C. 1444 – 1860
Let this scarlet oak reprsent the strength and resilience of people of African descent, and commemorate Africans who died in The MIddle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic Triangle in which upwards of 100 million Africans were transported as human cargo from the continent of Africa to the Americas. Estimates of one third to one half of those captured to be enslaved in the Americas died on the slave ships. The deaths were due to the inhumane way the Africans were treated, chained together skin-to-skin, no room to move, in the bowels of slave ships, where pestilence ran rampant, and due to ongoing resistance. African-Americans living and working as productive citizens in the U.S. represent/honor Africans who survived the deadly voyage. Those stolen from their homelands only to lose their lives in what is known as the Maafa deserve to be remembered, so that no atrocity like it occurs again in human history.
Governor Don Sundquist
July 1999
TN Legislative Black Caucus
