Log Cabin Village Stopping Stones Dedication Ceremony of June 10, 2023
Channel: City of Fort Worth
Date: 2023-06-13

Fort Worth’s Log Cabin Village has been selected as a site for two Stopping Stones that seek to acknowledge and memorialize enslaved people across the United States.
 
Stopping Stones is a unique organization that creates small memorials that commemorate individuals who were enslaved locally. The purpose of these memorials is to help residents realize and remember the history of slavery and to create conversations that address racial issues in our modern world.
 
This is an art project started by an artist in Vermont who was inspired by similar stones memorializing those lost in the Holocaust in Germany. Each hand-engraved “stone” carries the name, profession and enslaved dates of an individual enslaved in that place.
 
In Fort Worth’s case, the two stones will bear the names of Jefferson Walton and Molly, two people enslaved at the plantation-style home through which visitors now enter the Log Cabin Village.
 
The Fort Worth Park & Recreation Department is excited and honored that Log Cabin Village is the first museum in Texas to install Stopping Stones. The museum looks forward to the educational opportunities it will provide all visitors.