Woodlawn Plantation
9000 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, Virginia 22309, USA
Virginia, USA
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Woodlawn Plantation.
The original early-nineteenth-century Federal mansion survives within a reduced portion of its former Mount Vernon estate. Preservation stewardship maintains the house, architectural fabric, gardens, archaeological resources, outbuildings, and grounds, while adaptive programs interpret the Lewis family, enslaved community, and later occupants.
About Woodlawn Plantation
During the Lewises’ years in residence, Woodlawn plantation comprised over 2,000 acres and was supported by scores of workers, at least 90 of whom were enslaved people of African descent. Many of those slaves were gifted by Nelly’s grandmother, Martha Washington, and other relatives.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Woodlawn Plantation
In 1846, the Lewises’ son sold the property to Quaker families who made Woodlawn a “free labor colony,” selling lots to free Black and immigrant farmers—a tremendously controversial social experiment nearly two decades before the Emancipation Proclamation.
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