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...that Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?" (Maggie L. Walker NHS, pictured)
...that Charles Dickens composed the epitaph for the tombstone of Charles Irving Thornton despite never having met the dead child or his family?
... that Debedeavon, the Laughing King of the Accawmacke Virginia Indian tribe, and an Englishman whom he adopted named Thomas Savage, warned the settlers at Jamestown of the impending 1622 Massacre?
... that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army, the Potomac Creek Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days?
... that Harrison Howell Dodge, who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon, often slept in the house as a night guard?

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