• Carter G Woodson

    Carter G. Woodson Home

    National Historic Site District of Columbia

Things To Know Before You Come

The site is closed to the public pending restoration.

You can visit the location and see the building façade, but there will be no interpretive activities or Park Ranger presence for the pubic.

Did You Know?

Portrait of a young Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson did not begin his formal education until he was 20 years old. He had been denied access to public education in Canton, Virginia where he was born in 1875.