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Old & New CWT Markers At This Location also titled "Emancipation Oak".
 
By Bernard Fisher, July 31, 2010
Emancipation Oak CWT Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Virginia, Hampton, Phoebus — Emancipation Oak — “Thirst for Knowledge”
Near Emancipation Drive 0.1 miles south of East Tyler Street, on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Here, under an oak tree, newly freed African American students listened in January 1863 as the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud. Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s “contraband of war” decision at Fort Monroe in 1861 anticipated that day, . . . — — Map (db m33817) HM
2 ► Virginia, Hampton — Emancipation Oak — Formerly Enslaved Eager for Education —
On Emancipation Drive 0.1 miles south of Tyler Street, on the left when traveling south.
In January 1863, here under an oak tree, newly freed African American students listened as the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud. Union Gen. Benjamin Butler's "contraband of war" decision at Fort Monroe in 1861 anticipated that day, enabling . . . — — Map (db m283408) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Nov. 10, 2026