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Latoya Gray-Sparks gave an excellent (and heartbreaking) talk about Urban Renewal history in #RVA tonight. RPL Memory Lab was a great host and put together these fantastic Sanborn map displays with monopoly pieces to show homes razed for Gilpin Court, I-95, and the downtown expressway.
Latoya Gray-Sparks presenting maps and images of north Jackson Ward before its destruction to make way for public housing in the 1940s. A table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1940s and 50s to make way for public housing and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike. A man looks through a magnifying glass at a table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1940s and 50s to make way for public housing and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike. A table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1950s to make way for the Downtown Expressway.
February 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM