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 12130
Booker T. Washington Highway
Hardy, Virginia, 24101
(540)-721-2094
http://www.nps.gov/bowa
Cost: Free
Born on a small tobacco farm in southern Virginia in 1856, Booker T.
Washington overcame near-impossible odds to become one of the most
influential black men of his time. He learned the love of education
after carrying the books of his master’s daughter to school. “I had the
feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study would be about the same
as getting into paradise.” After migrating to West Virginia and working
in a salt mine, beginning at 4 a.m., to earn money for education,
Washington walked most of the 500 miles back to Virginia to enroll in
Hampton Institute. He worked his way through college and later in 1881,
founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. His famous autobiography, Up
From Slavery, reveals the story of a man driven to learn and to teach
others the importance of education, economic prosperity and the value of
hard work.
Directions:
The park is located in Franklin County, VA, 16 miles northeast of Rocky
Mount, VA via VA 40E and VA 122N; 25 miles southeast of Roanoke, VA via
US 220S, VA 40E, and VA 122N; and 50 miles southwest of Lynchburg, VA
via US 460W and VA 122S.
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