Hale's Ford, Virginia
Hale's Ford, Virginia ranks 26,099th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Radeberg, Bad Schwalbach, and Březnice (Příbram District). Memorable people born in Hale's Ford, Virginia include Booker T. Washington. Hale's Ford, Virginia has been the birth place of many writers. Hale's Ford, Virginia is located in United States.
Hale's Ford is a small unincorporated community located in the northeastern corner of Franklin County, Virginia about 25 miles (40 km) from Roanoke. It is most notable as the location of the Burroughs Farm, the tobacco plantation where the famed educator and orator Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. His mother Jane was an enslaved black woman held by the Burroughs and his father was a white planter who lived nearby. After the American Civil War ended, Jane took her children to West Virginia to rejoin her husband, who had been sold there as a slave before the war. Read more on Wikipedia
People
In 1856, Hale's Ford, Virginia was the birth place of 1 globally memorable people, including Booker T. Washington.
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Most individuals born in present day Hale's Ford, Virginia were writers (1), while most who died were .
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Throughout history writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Hale's Ford, Virginia, including Booker T. Washington.
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