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Publisher
Historic Fairfax City, Inc
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
Description
The fare facs gazette is published by the Historic Farifax City, Inc. HFCI is a non-profit that was created by the Fairfax City Council in 1982 to help manage and preserve historic properties within the city of Fairfax. The newsletter provides historical facts and articles to increase the public's awareness and aprreciation for those properties and for Fairfax City history.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Jermantown dramatically. Additional segregated neighborhoods, including School Street, which overlapped today's George Mason University, and Ilda, off Guinea Road, grew and thrived. In the second half of the nineteenth century residents built schools,...
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