Historic Resource Study Report

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In March 2023, historian Dr. Philip Levy completed a study to expand understanding of the Washington family within broader geographic and historical contexts. The study was prepared under a cooperative agreement between The Organization of American Historians and The National Park Service. It focuses on agricultural history, family history, labor history (including the histories and identities of enslaved laborers), between 1650 and 1813. The study benefits from recent scholarship on slavery, women, plantation economies, and material life in the early Tidewater Region of Virginia.

Click here to read Upon This Land: Seven Generations of the Washington Family and the Residents of Popes Creek and Mattox Neck.