SHADWELL (WINA) – The Montpelier Foundation and Montpelier Descendants Committee are inviting the public to bid on a Cedar of Lebanon table. A release says proceeds from this one-of-a-kind table-made from one of the old growth cedars that once towered over the Montpelier landscape – will go to fund the archaeological investigations at the burial ground that is the final resting place of over 250 people enslaved at Montpelier, as well as to fund oral history surveys with descendants of the ancestors who worked there.

Native to Lebanon, Cedar of Lebanon trees are rare species… and rare plants were once exchanged and presented as gifts to elites across the globe whose garden collections stood as a symbol of power and prestige.

The bidding starts at $5000, and all the information is linked here.