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Spirits in the Outfield
Five years later, the latest ballpark proposal confronts an old foe: Richmond's slave history.
by Chris Dovi
In 2004, when the first Shockoe Bottom ballpark was proposed, preservationists helped nix the deal by raising concerns about the project's impact on the site of the largely unexplored Lumpkin's slave jail. Five years and two archeological digs later, the new…
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