2014 New Year's Resolution #3. Free Clara and Robert Adams.
For years Clara and Robert Adams graves were surrounded by Alexandria Department of Recreation equipment, vehicles, mulch piles, potted plants, beer coolers, organic debris, and other items commonly found in a park district’s maintenance yard and nursery. In 2007 citizens formed an alliance to request that city leaders remove the maintenance yard and nursery, which had been established without city permits and public input. After petitions, public testimony and pleas to many, as well as a feature story in the Washington Post, city officials removed the equipment and debris from the yard and began to restore graves of Mr. and Mrs. Adams.
The maintenance and nursery yard continues to be locked-down as an advisory group working with consultants and city staff develop ideas for how this sacred area will be protected and used. Although descendants of the Adams family may arrange for access to the graves there is no public information on this part of the park. A forbidding sign is posted on the gate to the yard rather than a sign that acknowledges that the area behind the fence is the final resting place for Clara and Robert Adams and others.
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