On Jubal Early Highway (Virginia Route 116) just south of Truman Hill Road (County Route 678), on the right when traveling south.
Near this place, on land occupied since the
1780s by the Early family, Confederate General
Jubal Early was born in 1816, The General
practiced law in Franklin County and served in
the Mexican War before the Civil War. Early
fought in more . . . — — Map (db m65625) HM
On Booker T. Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road (County Route 636), on the right when traveling west.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the nearby Burroughs plantation on April 5, 1856. He was graduated from Hampton Institute in 1875 where he became an instructor. Because of his achievements as an educator, he was selected to establish a . . . — — Map (db m65611) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
"...my whole life has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life—that is, tries to make each day . . . — — Map (db m137945) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
Booker T. Washington, the renowned African-American leader and educator, was born into slavery on this plantation and freed here after the Civil War ended. At this national monument, you can learn about his childhood in slavery, living here with . . . — — Map (db m137933) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles west of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
A slave has died.
As in Africa, mourners keep all-night vigil, chanting loudly and praying. When the next day's work is done, friends of the dead slave gather from surrounding farms. Then the long procession marches out—songs and shouts, . . . — — Map (db m209518) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
Tobacco farmers used barns such as this to cure dark-leaf tobacco used for chewing tobacco. The tobacco plant was harvested in late August or early September, split down the middle, and hung upside down on sticks that were placed across poles inside . . . — — Map (db m307374) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
At 9 years old, Booker took his first breath of freedom here. He described the moment when he and his family were freed from slavery in his autobiography:
"My mother, who was standing by my side leaned over and kissed her . . . — — Map (db m298745) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) at Lost Mountain Road (Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
Oral tradition denotes this as the Sparks Cemetery. While the cemetery contains 41 fieldstone grave markers, a geophysical survey discovered a total of 83 graves. Only one stone bears an inscription, which includes the date of August 1823. The . . . — — Map (db m307375) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road (Route 636), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
Booker Taliaferro, his mother Jane, elder brother John Henry, younger sister Amanda, aunt Sophia, uncle Monroe, and cousin Sally were freed here in 1865. You can walk down to the site of emancipation, where the "Big House" was located. You can . . . — — Map (db m137943) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636) when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
Tobacco was the only crop grown on this farm that was sold for cash or bartered for goods. Corn, vegetables, and animals were raised to feed the people on the plantation. If a crop failed or if the tobacco barn burned down during the curing process, . . . — — Map (db m137944) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road, on the right.
To the slave, the forest offered more than hunting, fishing, or food. The woods were a place to meet, to rest, even to worship, away from the owner's gaze.
Today, as in Booker Washington's childhood, half of this farm is forest. A 1½-mile . . . — — Map (db m137982) HM
Near Old Hollow Lane west of Jubal Early Highway ( Route 116), on the right when traveling west.
This is the childhood home of Jubal Anderson Early, who was born on November 3, 1816. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1837 and served as a lieutenant in the Seminole War in Florida before resigning in 1838. He practiced . . . — — Map (db m87172) HM
Near Booker T. Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122), on the right when traveling east. Reported missing.
September 1861. Half the slaves of the South live, labor, and die on small farms like this, worked by fewer than 20 slaves. Slaves build barns, fix houses, clear fields, work gardens, fed animals, weave cloth, and sweat out the toughest domestic . . . — — Map (db m209517) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
The simple buildings Washington remembered are gone, but the patterns of hills, fields, and woods remain. Reconstructed buildings now recreate some of the scenes Washington knew as a child. The park brochure, available inside the visitor center, . . . — — Map (db m298743) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east.
The Burroughs' farm was one of many tobacco plantations that dominated the 1800s landscape of Southside Virginia. Cash or credit from a few acres of tobacco financed the purchase of necessities and some luxuries. Subsistence crops of corn, wheat, . . . — — Map (db m298744) HM
Near Booker T Washington Highway (Virginia Route 122) 0.2 miles east of Lost Mountain Road ( Route 636), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
When Booker lived here as a child with his family, about ten enslaved people of African descent worked and lived on this plantation. The enslaved worked every day, for long hours, in heat and cold. They worked to keep the farm profitable, so the . . . — — Map (db m137978) HM
