East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee to meet on June 4

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A community council formed to represent descendants of the people whose remains were found in a 19th century well during construction on Virginia Commonwealth University’s medical campus will discuss their recommendations for the best way to honor those remains at a meeting next week.

The Family Representative Council will share reflections on their learning experience and work process in a community conversation with the East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee on June 4 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Gymnasium, 1000 Mosby St., Richmond. The public is invited to attend.

The East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee, consisting of community and university members, was established in 2013 to select an appropriate decision-making body to help determine what happens to human remains found in a 19th-century well in 1994 during the construction of the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building on VCU’s medical campus. Visit East Marshall Street Well Project for more information about the effort.

The Family Representative Council was formed to represent the descendant community to make recommendations about memorialization, reburial of the human remains and the need for additional examination of the remains.