Wm. D Smith Works Consulted
Primary Sources:
1894 Land Tax Records in Fairfax County, in Mount Vernon Magisterial District, Fairfax County Courthouse Archives, Vol. 1894, Fairfax, Virginia.
Contract Records in Mount Vernon Magisterial District for the Year 1914, 1914, Fairfax County Historic Records Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
Deed from Annie M. Smith to H.L. Harris, Fairfax Deed Book, Fairfax County Historic Records Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
Grantee Index to Deeds "Sm-" from 1866-1932 page 57, 1893, Fairfax County Historic Records Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
Grantor Index to Deeds "Sm-" from 1866-1932 page 84, 1914, Fairfax County Historic Records Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
Land Tax Records in Mount Vernon Magisterial District for the Year 1921, 1921, Fairfax County Courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia.
Land Tax Records in Mount Vernon Magisterial District for the Year 1934, 1934, Fairfax County Courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia.
Land Tax Records in Mount Vernon Magisterial District for the Year 1941, 1941, Fairfax County Courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia.
Roll of Colored Voters in Mount Vernon Magisterial District for the Year 1902, 1902, Fairfax County Courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia.
Trust Contract from A. W. Armstrong to Dandridge and Annie M. Smith, Fairfax Deed Book, Fairfax County Historic Records Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
Virginia Chancery Records in Mount Vernon Magisterial District for the Year 1910, 1910, Fairfax County Courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia.
Secondary Sources:
1850 United States Federal Census - AncestryHeritageQuest.Com. https://www.ancestryheritagequest.com/discoveryui-content/view/14999677:8054?tid=&pid=&queryId=d3ba23a420d7398212ab21014587cf2c&_phsrc=KwK34&_phstart=successSource. Accessed 13 Nov. 2023.
1880 United States Federal Census - AncestryHeritageQuest.Com. https://www.ancestryheritagequest.com/discoveryui-content/view/42693091:6742?tid=&pid=&queryId=d3ba23a420d7398212ab21014587cf2c&_phsrc=KwK37&_phstart=successSource. Accessed 13 Nov. 2023.
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Annie M Arnold Smith (1854-1907) - Find a Grave... https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15037821/annie-m-smith. Accessed 13 Nov. 2023.
Black History in #FXVA: The Story of Gum Springs. 15 Feb. 2023, https://www.fxva.com/blog/post/gumsprings/.
C. Vernon Ford - Fractured Fairfax. https://www.fracturedfairfax.com/C._Vernon_Ford.html. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
Casper, Scott E., and Loren Schweninger. “Out of Mount Vernon’s Shadow: Black Landowners in George Washington’s Neighborhood, 1870–1930.” Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule, edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett, University Press of Florida, 2012, pp. 39–62. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvx0716s.10.
Gum Springs Historical Society and Museum. https://www.virginia.org/listing/gum-springs-historical-society-and-museum/254/. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
“Mt. Vernon Dist. No. 3.” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3850m.gct00186/?sp=46. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press, 1995.
“West Ford.” Encyclopedia Virginia, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/9661hpr-3850933b64104c8/. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
William Dandridge Smith (1840-1906) - Find a... https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15037809/william-dandridge-smith. Accessed 13 Nov. 2023.
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