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Illuminating a Hidden Site

The Recovery of a Sacred Black Landscape

Mary G. Padua
Landscape Journal, May 2023, 42 (1) 53-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.42.1.53
Mary G. Padua
Mary G. Padua is a licensed landscape architect with experience in the public and private sectors, including managing her practice, MGP Studio art design research. Her practice and research activities focus on human-centered outdoor restorative environments and the cultivation of place. Simultaneously a design educator and professor at Clemson University, where she served four years as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Padua is an internationally recognized changemaker. She is an award-winning writer and visual artist with original photographs held in public and private collections. Her publications span China’s hyperurbanization, novel American landscapes, and interrogating the meaning of place.
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  • 1903 campus map (cropped) indicates the location of cemetery hill facing the Seneca River and verifies institutional knowledge. Source: P. T. Brodie, S. W. Reaves, 1903 Map (cropped) of Clemson College Bottom Lands Showing Dike, Seneca River, and Other Surroundings. Copy courtesy of Clemson University Facilities.
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    1903 campus map (cropped) indicates the location of cemetery hill facing the Seneca River and verifies institutional knowledge. Source: P. T. Brodie, S. W. Reaves, 1903 Map (cropped) of Clemson College Bottom Lands Showing Dike, Seneca River, and Other Surroundings. Copy courtesy of Clemson University Facilities.

  • The AABG-WC is located south of Memorial Stadium and one quarter mile from the Fort Hill historic Calhoun house & library. Map by Xiwei Shen.
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    The AABG-WC is located south of Memorial Stadium and one quarter mile from the Fort Hill historic Calhoun house & library. Map by Xiwei Shen.

  • A 1953 aerial image above and 1963 aerial image below indicate significant impact to the AABG-WC and local natural resources from the ACoE’s Hartwell Dam & Lake project and Memorial Stadium expansion. Photographer unknown, courtesy of Clemson University Facilities.
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    A 1953 aerial image above and 1963 aerial image below indicate significant impact to the AABG-WC and local natural resources from the ACoE’s Hartwell Dam & Lake project and Memorial Stadium expansion. Photographer unknown, courtesy of Clemson University Facilities.

  • The AABG and locations of 667 UBIAD; developmental history of WC and designated burial plots. Graphic by Xiwei Shen and based on various sources.
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    The AABG and locations of 667 UBIAD; developmental history of WC and designated burial plots. Graphic by Xiwei Shen and based on various sources.

  • Fields of white flags mark the recently detected UBIAD distributed among the tombstones of Clemson officials, faculty, and family members. Photograph by author.
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    Fields of white flags mark the recently detected UBIAD distributed among the tombstones of Clemson officials, faculty, and family members. Photograph by author.

  • Spray-painted circles mark the locations of recently detected UBIAD beneath the asphalt walkways. Photograph by author.
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    Spray-painted circles mark the locations of recently detected UBIAD beneath the asphalt walkways. Photograph by author.

  • The fields of white flags encapsulate the hilly terrain and indicate the size and scale of the AABG. Photograph by author.
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    The fields of white flags encapsulate the hilly terrain and indicate the size and scale of the AABG. Photograph by author.

  • In 2016 permanent interpretative signs were installed at historic sites throughout campus. Photograph by author.
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    In 2016 permanent interpretative signs were installed at historic sites throughout campus. Photograph by author.

  • The Freedom Walkway in downtown Rock Hill, completed in 2015, is a type of reconciliatory landscape that commemorates the Friendship Nine as civil rights heroes. The project is located near the segregated lunch counter where in 1961 nine African American college students staged a peaceful sit-in and were arrested for trespassing. Photograph by author.
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    The Freedom Walkway in downtown Rock Hill, completed in 2015, is a type of reconciliatory landscape that commemorates the Friendship Nine as civil rights heroes. The project is located near the segregated lunch counter where in 1961 nine African American college students staged a peaceful sit-in and were arrested for trespassing. Photograph by author.

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