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"There are two ways of exerting one's strength;  one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliferro Washington

(April 1856-November 14, 1915)

Booker was born a slave to his mother Jane on the Burroughs Farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia in April 1856. He left after Emancipation in 1865 with his family to live in Malden, West Virginia.


BORN HERE! FREED HERE!

Travel to the park that depicts the farm where Booker fished, carted grain, brought water to workers, cared for farm animals, and worked on tobacco and farm crops. See the award-winning movie MEASURE OF A MAN, ask Rangers questions, live history, walk two trails and picnic with your family.

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