Communities destroyed & displaced
Queen City, razed for the Pentagon's roads
Condemned and demolished, February - April 1942Queen City, now beneath the Pentagon's road network, Arlington, VA
Descendants of Freedman's Village built Queen City and East Arlington along Columbia Pike. In February 1942 the War Department gave them less than a month to leave, then levelled both for the Pentagon's road network. Owners averaged $2,052; tenants got nothing.
- People displaced
- 900
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