Legacy and Honors
- 2010, the city of Alexandria, Virginia named a park on Duke Street as Edmonson Plaza after the two sisters. It is near a former slave trader's facility and other historical sites associated with slavery.
- 2010, a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) bronze sculpture of the two sisters by the sculptor Erik Blome was installed at Edmonson Plaza at 1701 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, next to the site that was Bruin & Hill's slave holding facility (now a private office).
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