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- September 11, 2024
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Johnson’s studio at 1311-1313 Charles Street has housed Black-owned businesses since the 1880s. Editor’s Note: Welcome to History Thursday! Each week, we’ll be exploring a different historic building, site, or neighborhood in the region, hoping to shed some light on the many different stories they hold. We’re starting with historic “pocket” African American neighborhoods in […]

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- July 17, 2024
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Five new wayside panels add to the story already told on the downtown portion of the Trail. Almost four years to the day after an email exchange that initiated work on the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail, city and University of Mary Washington leaders unveiled five wayside panels that complete the trail. “This is the last unveiling […]

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FXBG Advance
- April 8, 2024
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by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT In the Fredericksburg area today, we’re accustomed to crossing the Rappahannock River with ease, often multiple times a day, to get to work, or to an appointment, or to run an errand. Two hundred years ago, a young, enslaved man named James attempted to cross the river in order […]

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FXBG Advance
- February 8, 2024
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Local trail is one of four Virginia sites on the national trail.

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