February 18, 2015
Ron Chase, Gum Springs historian and director of the Gum Springs Museum, with a picture of his great-grandmother Harriet Cortrell, a slave who died in her 20s.
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Faces of Gum Springs, Alexandria
Residents reflect on their historic community.
Of the current residents of Gum Springs, several hundred are descendants of the original families who bought land and settled in one of northern Virginia’s oldest and historically black communities.
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