A new, interactive story map documents the African American experience in Fauquier County. The Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County and The Piedmont Environmental Council created the online map with PATH Foundation funding.
“The story map will give people, perhaps for the first time in history, digital access to information about the history and contributions of Fauquier’s African American communities, schools and churches established before and after the Civil War,” the creators said in a press release Monday.
Free and enslaved African Americans made up about half of Fauquier County’s population in 1860.
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