A Curious Tomb and a Long Epitaph

 Captain John Williams

Columbian Harmony Cemetery

The Rhode Island Metro Station in Northeast Washington is the former site of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, the final resting place for many important 19th Century African Americans, including two Medal of Honor winners. The headstones and locations of the graves were lost in 1960.

Margaret Toogood

The Last Slave in Maryland

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Riley Farm House in North Bethesda

Cedar Hill

Frederick Douglass' Home  on W Street in Anacostia, DC
 

A Freedman's Home

The Gilmore Farm in the Shadow of James Madison's Montpelier

This was George and Polly Gilmore's farm in the second half of the 19th century. Both George and Polly were born into slavery at James Madison's Montpelier. The Gilmore family lived here until the 1930's.