Hardy, Virginia - Booker T. Washington National Monument. The Monument encompasses the former James Burroughs plantation where Washington was born a s

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Hardy, Virginia - Booker T. Washington National Monument. The Monument encompasses the former James Burroughs plantation where Washington was born a slave in about 1856 and where he was freed from slavery in 1865. He went on to found the Tuskegee Institute.

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Location: Hardy, Virginia, United States
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