American Innovation® $1 Coin offer:

Gardens at Bayonne is proud to support the Stories from the Journey project, from Never Remove the Cornerstone author, Byron Coleman, also an instructor with the Discover Your Roots Free Family Research Seminar (https://discoveryourrootsga.org/), with this great fundraiser program with the limited offer of The 2024 American Innovation® $1 Coin offer.  

Gardens at Bayonne, makes this uncirculated, proof finish, coin minted in Philadelphia and Denver available to you, featuring a beautiful depiction of George Washington Carver and his laboratory equipment, peanut leaves, blossoms, and fruit, and the State of Missouri (the 25th state or territory to showcase an innovation, innovator, or group of innovators), and while the obverse features the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), with these (uncirculated) issues bearing, either the "P" or "D" mint mark, signifying its mintage at the Philadelphia Mint or Denver Mint, respectively. 

George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri. He went on to become the agricultural scientist who helped save the South’s agrarian economy. Following the abolition of slavery, many formerly enslaved people became small-scale farmers, but struggled to thrive on nutrient-depleted land due to single-crop overuse. Dr. Carver knew that his lessons on crop rotation and practical farming methods could help if they could reach farmers outside of his classrooms at Tuskegee University.
As a bonus, for a limited time, each coin will be included with a custom-designed George Washington Carver postage stamp bookmark, with a brief history of Dr. Carver and an enlarged image of the 32-cent stamp, issued in 1998, on one side.  The reverse side of the bookmark includes the words to a song, penned by Stevie Wonder in 1979, entitled “The Same Old Story,” and an enlarged image of a 1948 issue, 3-cent postage stamp, featuring a rose-magenta, toned engraving of Dr. Carver.
*Limited coins available at the price of only $10.00, plus shipping and handling, at:
https://gardensatbayonne.com/

An event worth attending...

 

It began with a simple idea...Gardens at Bayonne

Jules Bayonne, a young, former domestic servant, a free person of color, in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, had a friend, also a former employee of the Parlange Family in 1872, when the two, ambitious men, embarked on a partnership purchase of approximately sixty-six acres of farmland.

Shortly afterwards, François Francis, also in the employ of the Parlange Family, decided to sell his one-half ownership interest to his friend, Jules, brining the entire purchase price at $600.00 to Jules Bayonne.

The details of our ancestry history as it relates to Jules Bayonne, my maternal second great-grandfather, is well summarized by my cousin, Patricia at:  https://africanroots-pbj.blogspot.com/2013/02/jules-bayonne-revisited.html

At twenty-six years-old, in 1870, five years after the Civil War, and in the early years of Reconstruction, Jules, then a single, free man of color, was still not a common occurrence in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a place less than 125 miles from where one of the most horrific events occurred during Reconstruction in a town called Colfax, Louisiana (see Note 1 below) a few years after he purchased his property. 

In 2006, in an effort to fund the legal struggle to retain this historically relevant property to the legitimate heirs of Estate of Jules and Victorine Bayonne, the family members collectively agreed to create a Heritage Garden on the twenty-nine acres of land, pictured on our website at:  https://gardensatbayonne.com/, where we have established a 'virtual' representation of our family's vision in 2006.

It is our hope to realize a 'material' memorial garden, in the near future, as a tribute to Jules and Victorine Bayonne and their descendants, from the efforts of projects like these with the support of our  sponsors, garden members and contributors.

Thanks to all of our supporters, past, current, and future!

"Enjoy the Journey!'

Note 1:  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/colfax-massacre-louisiana