Henry Highland Garnet Park Marker

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Baltimore, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Henry Highland Garnet Park

By Christopher Busta-Peck, March 15, 2008

1. Henry Highland Garnet Park Marker

Inscription. This is a community park developed by the Special Impact Neighborhood Improvement Program and the Department of Recreatoin and Parks dedicated to the memory of Henry Highland Garnet by the Henry Highland Garnet Neighborhood Council.

Henry Highland Garnet was the son of an enslaved African chief born in Delaware in 1815. He became a Presbyterian preacher and lecturer. His famous speech delivered to the Convention of Free Men of Color at Buffalo, New York in 1843 was:

Brethren, arise! Arise! Stand up for your lives and liberties. Now is the day and the hour. Let every slave in this land do this and the days of slavery are numbered. You cannot be more oppressed than you have been. You cannot suffer greater cruelties than you have already. Rather than die free men than to live and be slaves. Remember that you are four million.

He was recognized far and near, carrying his message to England in 1850. He proceeded to Jamaica to toil as a missionary. He was later to serve as a Presbyterian minister in Washington and New York City. After the Civil War he became a recorder of deeds. He was appointed representative of the United States government to Liberia where he died in 1882 soon after undertaking his duties.

Location. 39° 18.158′ N, 76° 37.748′

By Christopher Busta-Peck, March 15, 2008

2. Henry Highland Garnet Park Marker

W. Marker is in Baltimore, Maryland. Marker is at the intersection of Druid Hill Avenue (Maryland Route 129) and West Lafayette Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Druid Hill Avenue. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Baltimore MD 21217, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Bethel A.M.E. Church (about 300 feet away, in a direct line); In Memory of Dr. Lillie May Jackson (about 300 feet away); William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (about 600 feet away); Sharp Street Memorial Church (about 700 feet away); Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum (approx. 0.2 miles away); Daniel Coit Gilman (approx. 0.2 miles away); Sidney Lanier (approx. 0.2 miles away); Howard A. Kelly, M.D. (approx. 0.2 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Baltimore.

Also see . . . Biography of Garnet at Wikipedia. (Submitted on March 15, 2008, by Christopher Busta-Peck of Shaker Heights, Ohio.)