Marvin Tupper Jones

2023 Honoree

Mr. MARVIN TUPPER JONES is from the great District of Columbia.

He is the founder of the Chowan Discovery Group whose mission is to research, document, preserve and present the 400+ year-old history of the land-owning tri-racial people of color of the Winton Triangle, an area centered in Hertford County, North Carolina.  

The Winton Triangle digital collection now has over 90,000 files of photographs, and has documents, maps, audio and video recordings to preserve the four-hundred-year history of the people of color in this part of eastern North Carolina. He descends from two men of color who served in the American Revolution, Jesse Weaver and James Robbins.