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Booker T. Washington National Monument commemorates the birthplace and emancipation site of America’s most prominent African American educator and orator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The property, located in the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont, evokes a 1850s and Civil War-era tobacco plantation, representative of Booker T. Washington’s enslaved childhood at the Burroughs farm.

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    History and Culture

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Last updated: January 19, 2026

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12130 Booker T. Washington Highway
Hardy, VA 24101

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540 682-0173

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