Peirce Mill’s William Beckett Project: Conversation and Reception
Rock Crek Park Picnic Grove 1 Shoemaker St NW, WashingtonApril 20th 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Learn about the remarkable life of William Beckett, who was once the enslaved manager of Joshua Peirce’s nursery business on Linnaean Hill, now Rock Creek Park headquarters. New evidence reveals that Beckett was also Peirce’s son; his mother was an enslaved woman named Mary Beckett. Friends of Peirce Mill […]