This is a picture of Nat Turner and a group of enslaved people gathered together

This is a runaway ad for an enslaved person that belonged to Richard C Mason

Locations of some of the oldest black neighborhoods in Arlington.

Mt. Olive Baptist church is a branch of the original Old Bell Church which opened in 1873

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This is the stone that was about the West Grove House that is still on the land. The last artifact of the plantation.

James Ian is a disabled musician located in California.

The entrance sign of Belle Haven Country Club

The main building of Belle Haven Country Club

This is the land of where West Grove Plantation used to be

This book contains an account of the resistance at Spring Bank and explains the history of slave patrols in the south

This is a newspaper ad from Alexandria Gazette that reports Spencer and Alfred being sentenced to execution for assaulting patrols

An article criticizing Freedman's Village calling it an "eye-sore".

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive is a book by Marisa Fuentes that reviews how to make an alternative narrative outside of a traditional narrative

Virginia House of Delegate member John B. Syphax

John Wanzer working in hid blacksmith shop

Different cities of Northern Virginia

Winne Walker Spencer attended Laurel Grove School from grades one through seven starting in 1914. She went on to teach in segregated schools in Fairfax County including Gum Springs, Woodlawn, and Odrick's Corner to name a few. She had close bonds with her students, as one can see in this image, and she retired from teaching in the Fairfax County School System in 1958.

Headstone reads: "An Honest Man. George W. Carroll. Beloved Husband of Jannie E. Carroll. Born Feb. 22, 1856. Died Dec. 17, 1917

From left to right, headstones read: "Jasper, Georgeanna. 1830 - 1918. At Rest." "Jasper, William. 1797 - 1895. Earl Walker. July 30 - Aug. 31, 1901."

The cemetery directly behind the Baptist Church site is the final resting place of many of the community's founding families, including long-time congregants. The Metro Park office buildings are in view behind this cemetery.