Gwynn's Island Project
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Gwynn's Island Family Reunion

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Heal the Legacy of Slavery


Visit website below to engage a community dedicated to that task


https://comingtothetable.org/linked-descendants-working-group


Research Resources


 
Gwynn's Island Museum
Established in 1991, museum is dedicated to preserving the history of Gwynn's Island and Mathews County.
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The Mariner's Museum
Located in Newport News, VA, this is one of the largest maritime museums in North America.
Their library contains the largest maritime history collection in the Western Hemisphere.

Virginia Memory
Online presence of the Library of Virginia, the state archives and reference library, located in Richmond, VA.
Established in 1823, the Library maintains vast and varied collections of print materials, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs,
ephemera, maps and atlases, rare books, and fine art that tell the history of the commonwealth and its people.

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Mathews County, Virginia: Lost Landscapes, Untold Stories
Martha W. McCartney, Mathews County Historical Society (2015)

Gwynn's Island, Virginia: Stories of a New World Settlement from the First Families to the Present
David D. Ryann, Gwynn's Island Civic League (2004)

Gwynn's Island Times
News items from The Mathews Journal (1905-1937)
Tidewater Newspapers (1998)

The Black Americans of Gwynn's Island (1600s-1900)
John Dixon, Gwynn's Island Museum pamphlet (2018)

Gwynn's Island: A Brief History of the Oldest Permanent English Settlement on the Middle Penninsula of Virginia
John Dixon, Gwynn's Island Museum pamphlet (2004)

Mary Edwards Civil War Diary (1861-1863)
Mary T. Edwards, Gwynn's Island Museum pamphlet (2011)

Reminiscences: The Old Stores of Gwynn's Island
Gazelle Moore, Gwynn's Island Museum pamphlet (2001)

Stories of Cherry Point
Jean Sparrow Pendleton, Gwynn's Island Museum pamphlet (1995)

Growing Up on Gwynn's Island
William Hobson Powell, Gwynn's Island Museum pamphlet (2000)

Media



Video: Honoring the Historic Black Community of Gwynn's Island, Virginia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGRiTuoEp2E


Blog: Allison Thomas

https://allisonthom.wordpress.com/


Newsclip: Two Women Examine Exodus of Black Families from Gwynn's Island

Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal -- 3/10/2021

https://www.gazettejournal.net/two-women-examine-exodus-of-black-families-from-gwynns-island/


Newsclip: How Gwynn's Island Became a "White Man's Paradise"

Non-profit Quarterly Magazine -- 3/31/2021

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-gwynns-island-became-the-white-mans-paradise/


Newsclip: Smith Family Holds Reunion on Gwynn's Island

Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal -- 6/23/2021

https://www.gazettejournal.net/smith-family-holds-reunion-on-gwynns-island/


Interview: Maria Sharp Montgomery & Allison Thomas

Posted in reparations4slavery.com -- 6/30/21

https://reparations4slavery.com/interview-with-allison-thomas-maria-sharp-montgomery/


Newsclip: Gathering of Black Descendants Held on Gwynn's Island -- 8/17/2022

https://www.gazettejournal.net/gathering-of-black-descendants-held-on-g-i/

Newsclip: VDH to Consider Gwynn's Island Marker -- 9/13/2023

https://www.gazettejournal.net/vdh-to-consider-gwynns-island-historical-marker/


Letter to Editor: This Dark History Must be Remembered -- 9/27/2023 

https://www.gazettejournal.net/letter-this-dark-history-must-be-remembered


Newsclip: “Marker Committee” -- 10/11/2023

https://www.gazettejournal.net/marker-committee/


Letter to Editor: Acknowledge the Wrong -- 10/18/2023 

https://www.gazettejournal.net/letter-acknowledge-the-wrong/



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