Black Lives Next Door in Fairfax

Primary Sources

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[1] Hopkins, Griffith Morgan, Jr. Atlas of fifteen miles around Washington, including the county of Montgomery, Maryland. Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins, 1879, 1879. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/87675339/.

[2] “Preserving African American Heritage: Gum Springs.” The Zebra--Good News in Alexandria, February 7, 2020. https://thezebra.org/2020/02/07/preserving-african-american-heritage-gum-springs/.

[3] Table of Tracts, Page 66, Lovelace Brown, Row 3 in 1894

[4] Coroners Inquests, Folder CI-005, Lovelace Brown, January 19th, 1898

 

Real Estate

[2] Tax Records for Lovelace Brown in 1872, Row 20

[3] Tax Records for Lovelace Brown in 1874, Row 19

[4] Road Petitions, Box 4, RP - 154, Brown & Neighbors in 1880

[5] Deed Book, Page 404, Brown selling to Taylor in 1884 Front

[6] Deed Book, Page 404, Brown selling to Taylor in 1884 Back

[7] Deed Records, Folder F-5, Page 402-403 in 1886

[8] Deed Book, unknown page, Brown purchasing from Wood in 1888

[9] Tax Records for Lovelace Brown in 1891, Row 3

[10]  Table of Tracts, Page 66, Lovelace Brown, Row 3 in 1894

[11]  Deed Book A6, Page 357 Brown selling to Taylor in 1898

 

Extra Research

[1] 1868 Census Cite Virginia

[2] 1868 Census Cite Virginia

[3] Census Cite September 2nd 1868

[4] Coroners Inquests, Folder CI-005, Lovelace Brown, January 19th, 1898

Secondary Sources

Main Page

[5] “Preserving African American Heritage: Gum Springs.” The Zebra--Good News in Alexandria, February 7, 2020. https://thezebra.org/2020/02/07/preserving-african-american-heritage-gum-springs/. 

[6] Yvette Yancey 21 Dec 2020 from Newspapers.com

Real Estate

[1]   Muddy Hole Farm Park Sign 2021

[12] CASPER, SCOTT E., and Loren Schweninger. “Out of Mount Vernon’s Shadow: Black Landowners in George Washington’s Neighborhood, 1870–1930.” In Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction, edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett, 39–62. University Press of Florida, 2012. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvx0716s.10.