Communities destroyed & displaced
Freedman's Village, cleared off the Arlington estate
Dedicated December 1863; ordered closed 1887; gone by 1900Freedman's Village, south end of the Arlington estate, VA
Dedicated in 1863 as a model community for freed people, with a hospital, schools, churches and a home for the aged, Freedman's Village held more than 1,100 residents. The War Department ordered it closed in 1887 and finished the job by 1900.
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