Black Land/Property Ownership
Black land/property ownership and the legacy of that property ownership passing to their progeny.
- Subject of Research
- Levi Jones; October 7, 1844
- Story
- Levi Jones, a free black man, purchases 14 acres from Elizabeth Baggot in what is now Green Valley to be near his enslaved wife Sarah Ann Gardener. Plantation owner, Alexander Frazier, enslaves Sarah and their growing family. After the Civil War, the family helps develop Nauck/Green Valley as an African American community.
- People
- Levi Jones
- Sarah Ann Gardener
- Elizabeth Baggot
- Alexander Frazier
- Place
- Green Valley
- Item sets
- Arlington County Black Mobility
- Subject of Research
- Edward Leslie, Sr. (1917-2013) and Dorothy Hamm (1919-2004)
- Story
- November 2019: Edward Leslie Hamm, Sr. (1917-2013) and his wife, Dorothy Bigelow Hamm (1919-2004) were longtime residents of Hall’s Hill, dedicated to seeing the advancement of their local community and the African American community at large through their professional and personal lives (Hamm 2019; Jones 2018:73). For 15 years the Hamms have been involved in just about every phase of the civil rights struggle in Arlington, not to mention the fact that they as much as anyone are responsible for the neighborhood conservation program…Determined to change their neighborhood as well as the world, they joined everything, lent their time and effort and money to any project. The NAACP, Mount Salvation Church, the Arlington Council on Human Rights, Norther Virginia Fair Housing, Hurelco (a land development company that is color blind), the County Advisory Committee on Health and Welfare, the County Neighborhood Conservation Committee, the League of Women Voters, the John M. Langston Citizens Association (she is outgoing president), and many more. (Buchard 1969)
- People
- Edward Leslie, Sr. (1917-2013)
- Dorothy Hamm (1919-2004)
- Place
- 1900 North Cameron Street; Arlington, VA 22207
- Item sets
- Arlington County Black Mobility