The Prince Hall Memorial will not bear its namesake’s image when it is erected on Cambridge Common this November. No pictures of the indentured servant-turned-abolitionist can be found, nor much description on which to base an artist’s depiction.
And while Prince Hall’s contributions to American history and the antislavery movement are familiar to historians and members of the Masonic lodge he created, he is not a well-known figure.
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I wandered all around Cambridge Common last weekend and couldn’t find the Prince Hall Monument. The Globe article says it won’t be built until November. How do they do an unveiling before the Monument is built?
About three miles from Cambridge Common, in Arlington, is the oldest Prince Hall cemetery. Oddly, it was forgotten, and the headstones are no longer there, and it had become a vacant lot. Someone wanted to built on the lot, and during the discovery phase of closing, it was discovered that the site used to be a Prince Hall cemetery, and the MW Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts was notified, and rededicated the cemetery. Archaeologists using ultrasound have found eight bodies buried there. Worth visiting if you are in the area.