Individual Film Price:

Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $49.95
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $49.95
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $5.95

Precious Places Compilation Price:

This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 10 compilation DVD.
 
Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $139.00
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $79.00
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $20.00

Scribe Video Center Program:

The Precious Places Community History Project is a community oral history project inviting members of the Philadelphia region's many neighborhoods to document the buildings, public spaces, parks, landmarks and other sites that hold the memories of our communities and define where we live. Precious Places teaches the video production process to participating groups, fostering projects authored by those who intimately know the featured neighborhoods.

Film Summary:

Germantown Potter’s Field is arguably the oldest black public cemetery in America, and tells of a history that was lost and forgotten then revived again and honored. Purchased in 1755, the burial ground known as Germantown Potter’s Field was to be used as a resting place for all strangers, Negroes, and Mulattoes that died in any part of Germantown. The story of the forgotten Germantown Potter’s Field came to light in 2011, when the Philadelphia Housing Authority publicly announced that their intention to construct a new housing development unit directly on the former burial site. As a result of various community meetings and an archaeological investigation, a great number of artifacts were found, and the specific area where ancestral remains were identified were left preserved. In 2017, a historical marker honoring the legacy of Germantown Potter’s Field was installed at the site of the redeveloped Queen Lane Apartments. The film is produced by Afrocentricity International.