• Batestown Road Family Reunion

    Merchant Park 3944 Cameron St, Dumfries, VA, United States

    Batestown is a predominantly African American community in eastern Prince William County that was founded in the 1820s. The community was one of only a handful of African American communities in Northern Virginia prior to the Civil War. After the Civil War, Batestown grew in population as formerly enslaved people moved here. Soon it became…
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