Pegasus Plaza Perseus slew the serpent-haired monster Medusa and Pegasus sprang from her severed head. He stamped the earth with his hoof, creating the Fountain of the Muses. A limestone fountain and winding stream anchor the design of the plaza. The fountain is connected to a natural mineral spring below the Magnolia Building and is the source well for water in the plaza. A series of concentric circles embedded in the pavement radiates from the fountain into the surrounding streets. Scattered throughout the plaza are nine granite boulders taken from Marble Falls carved and dedicated to the nine Muses. A stone dedicated
Jenny Slew Jenny Slew Jenny Slew (1719 - unknown) was one of the first black Americans to sue for her freedom, and the first person to succeed through trial by jury. Jenny Slew was born around 1719 to a free white woman, Betty Slew, and a man of African descent, likely a slave. Slew lived a life as a free woman in Ipswich, Massachusetts up until 1762. Slew was married several times, all to enslaved men. In January 1762, when Slew was forty-three, she was kidnapped from her home in Ipswich and forced into servitude by John Whipple Jr. In 1765, three