Reintroducing Woodlawn: A Legacy of Nonviolence and Neighborhood

Name: Reintroducing Woodlawn: A Legacy of Nonviolence and Neighborhood
Start: 2026-09-08T22:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-08T23:30:00+00:00
Location: Lorton Library

You may know the name, but do you know the story? More than a historic site, Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House was transformed from a plantation to an antislavery community, twenty years before the Civil...

America 250

September 8 · 6:30 PM · Lorton Library

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