Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on this 239-acre tobacco farm 25 miles southeast of Roanoke on April 5, 1856. He walked to Hampton Institute at age 16, founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881, and recruited George Washington Carver in 1896. The national monument preserves the farm site with a reconstructed kitchen cabin and a quarter-mile trail through the tobacco fields where he worked as a child. Free admission. About 25 minutes from Roanoke.
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- ·Birthplace of Booker T. Washington, born enslaved April 5, 1856.
- ·Founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
- ·Recruited George Washington Carver in 1896.
- ·239-acre NPS site with reconstructed buildings and walking trails.
- ·Free admission. About 25 minutes from Roanoke.
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