Halls Hill Neighborhood
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Subject of Research
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Halls Hill Neighborhood
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Story
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“The Sealock dairy farm on North 16th Street was sold in 1935 to an organization that wanted to bring a hospital to that location. This began an effort to move the Halls Hill community to the Green Valley neighborhood in south Arlington. The aim was unsuccessful, but it was one of many efforts to displace the residents of Halls Hill over the years. The hospital was built during the war and opened in March 1944. Residents of Halls Hill could not patronize the hospital, as they refused to serve [B]lack people when they opened, even though the facility was in the Halls Hill community [a Black enclave].”
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Source
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Wilma Jones, My Halls Hill Family: More Than A Neighborhood, (self-pub., Wilma Jones, 2018), 46.