Barry Farms
Suitland Parkway & Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., S.E. - Established by the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 to resettle many of the black families that had flocked to the nation's capital during the Civil War.

Fort Reno
Near 39th & Ellicott Sts., N.W. - Beginning in 1865, an African American community grew up around this decommissioned Civil War fortification situated on one of the highest points of land in the District of Columbia.

Murder Bay
South of Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. between 13th & 15th Sts - In the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, thousands of African Americans flooded into downtown "Washington City." Overcrowding, disease, and poverty turned an already seedy area into a huge, stark shantytown. There were many deaths. The area was demolished to make way for the construction of the Federal Triangle.

Toussaint L'Ouverture Hospital and Contraband Barracks
200 block of S. Payne St., Alexandria, Virginia - Around the comer from a former slave pen that had been converted into a jail for rebels, this was the former location of a complex that came to include three wooden barracks for freedmen, a small hospital for freedmen and black soldiers, and a school house.

Freedmen's Village, Arlington National Cemetery
Site of a model settlement of freedmen on the former estate of General Robert E. Lee. Sojourner Truth often worked there. Long after the Civil War, the Army began to force the remnants of this community off the land after a regulation was passed forbidding civilians to live on military reservations.

Camp Barker - 12th & Q Sts., N.W.
Black refugees from the Confederacy were moved here from Duff Green's Row on Capitol Hill. Thousands more came as the war progressed. Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Alexander T. Augusta was briefly the camp's physician. He was followed by his friend and protege, Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott, the first Canadian-born black person to graduate from a medical school in Canada. Abbott was a contract surgeon for the Army, with the honorary rank of captain.