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Portsmouth Council approves plans for Dinah Chase Whipple headstone installation and ceremony
Summary
The council on April 21 referred a request from descendants and community groups to the city manager with authority to act to organize a headstone installation and ceremony for Dinah Chase Whipple on June 13 in North Cemetery; donations have been accepted to fund the marker.
Portsmouth City Council on April 21 formally authorized the city manager to carry out plans for a headstone installation and ceremony marking the gravesite of Dinah Chase Whipple, a formerly enslaved woman who later founded a school in Portsmouth and is recognized in local Black history.
City staff said descendants of Dinah Chase Whipple have worked with the Cemetery Committee, the…
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