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MEMORIAL TABLET TO BUILDERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
 
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MEMORIAL TABLET TO BUILDERS OF THE UNIVERSITY

WHEREAS, the Board of Visitors wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the mostly anonymous men and women, free and enslaved, who constructed the first buildings of the University between 1817 and 1826;


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RESOLVED, the Board directs the placement of a stone tablet, to be set in the pavement on the south side of the Rotunda at the point where the main passage into the Rotunda joins the walkway under the West Lawn colonnades. The memorial tablet is to be inscribed as follows:

"In honor of the several hundred men and women, both free and enslaved, whose labor between 1817 and 1826 helped to realize Thomas Jefferson design for the University of Virginia.