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The Franklin and Armfield Office, which houses the Freedom House Museum, is a historic commercial building in Alexandria, Virginia (until 1846, the District of Columbia). Built c. 1810–1820, it was first used as a private residence before being converted to the offices of the largest slave trading firm in the United States, started in 1828 by ...
Fendall family coat of arms. The Lee–Fendall House is a historic house museum and garden located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, United States, at 614 Oronoco Street.. Since its construction in 1785, the house has served as home to thirty-seven members of the Lee family (1785–1903), hundreds of convalescing Union soldiers (1863–1865), the prominent Downham family (1903–1937), the ...
Freedom House Museum: Alexandria: Alexandria: Northern: African American: Operated by the Northern Virginia Urban League in a slave-trading depot, history of area slavery Freeman Store and Museum: Vienna: Fairfax: Northern: Local history: Operated by Historic Vienna Friendship Firehouse Museum: Alexandria: Alexandria: Northern: Firefighting ...
Freedom House Ambulance Service, the first emergency medical technician service in America, founded in 1967; Freedom House Museum, also known as the Franklin and Armfield Office, anti-slavery museum in Alexandria, Virginia, United States; House of Freedom, an administration building on the South Korea side of the Joint Security Area between ...
Freedom House Museum: Alexandria: Virginia: 2008 [63] Freedom Rides Museum: Montgomery: Alabama: 1962 [64] George Washington Carver Museum, The: Tuskegee: Alabama: 1941 [65] George Washington Carver Museum: Phoenix: Arizona: 1980 [66] George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center: Austin: Texas: 1980 [67] George Washington Carver National ...
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George Kephart (February 7, 1811 – August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, land owner, farmer, and philanthropist. A native of Maryland, he was an agent of the interstate trading firm Franklin & Armfield early in his career, and later occupied, owned, and finally leased out that company's infamous slave jail in Alexandria (originally District of Columbia, after March 13 ...
The Alexandria Archaeology Museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and study of the archaeological heritage of Alexandria, Virginia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the National Park Service , the museum exhibits feature's 10,000 years of the human history of Alexandria.