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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: March 15, 2014
Caption: 1707 Duke Street -- Bruin's Slave Jail
Additional Description: 1707, the last remnant of the old West End, was Bruin's Slave Jail before the Civil War. The Edmonson sisters were held here after the failure of the Pearl escape in 1848. During the Civil War, this building was the courthouse of the restored (Loyal-Unionist) government of Fairfax County.
Submitted: March 17, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p268371
File Size: 3.357 Megabytes

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