Freedman’s Village – Robert E. Lee Estate in Arlington

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 13, 2008

There are a lot of anniversaries in May. In May 1863 the government organized the Freedman’s Village on the grounds of General Robert E. Lee’s home in Arlington, Virginia. It had “fourteen dwellings, and a church a hospital and a home of the aged and infirm, with streets regularly laid out and named, and... (Read More)