"Woodlawn on the Eve of the Civil War:

A Changing Cultural Landscape."

From plantation slavery to an integrated community - 1846-1865

Susan Hellman is a professional architectural historian with an M.A.
from the University of Virginia School of Architecture and a B.A. from
Duke University. After several years working as a Historian for Fairfax
County, she is now the Deputy Director of Woodlawn/Pope-Leighey.

Maddy McCoy is a Certified Historic Preservationist and creator of the
Fairfax County, Virginia Slavery Inventory Database, a searchable
genealogical database of enslaved and free black individuals who lived
in Fairfax County, Virginia prior to 1865. She is a Historian for the
Fairfax County Park Authority, and part of Gunston Hall's Seeds of
Independence Group, researching the post-bellum African American
community on Mason Neck.

Thursday, September 30

Historic Woodlawn

7 - 9 p.m.  

Admission: $15.00; National Trust members; $10.00 

RSVP:  Please respond to Karen Sherwood at 703-780-4000 extension 26321
or [log in to unmask]  All major credit cards accepted; checks
payable to Woodlawn  

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