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Your quiet community could be destroyed : Organizers to hold meeting to educate Gum Springs residents on the importance of preserving their community

Gum Springs is the oldest free sustained African American community in Fairfax County, Virginia. Now, its residents are fighting to preserve their space.

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Gum Springs 190 Founders Day Gala

Gum Springs 190 Founders Day Gala
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Historic Gum Springs Celebrates 190 Years

Historic Gum Springs Celebrates 190 Years
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Did George Washington Have an Enslaved Son?

West Ford’s descendants want to prove his parentage and save the freedmen’s village he founded.

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<p>West Ford founded the freedmen's town of Gum Springs near Mount Vernon in 1833. Today a preservation effort to protect the town is tied to a bitter conflict with Mount Vernon over whether West Ford was also the unacknowledged son of George Washington. </p>

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