Virginia Hiker » Booker T. Washington National Monument http://www.virginiahiker.com Your hiking resource to Virginia! Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Booker T. Washington National Monument http://www.virginiahiker.com/2008/07/24/booker-t-washington-national-monument/ http://www.virginiahiker.com/2008/07/24/booker-t-washington-national-monument/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:38 +0000 Chris http://www.virginiahiker.com/?p=112 This 224 acre national monument in the southern Virginia piedmont honors the life and accomplishments of Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915), who rose from humble beginnings as a slave to be known ultimately as America’s leading black educator. The monument protects and interprets the historic James Burroughs tobacco farm, where Washington was born and spent his childhood. At age 23, he became a teacher at the Hampton Institute, from which he graduated with honors. Two years later, he was named the principal of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.

The visitors center provides interpretive exhibits, an audiovisual program, and publications. The Plantation Trail leads visitors to a number of reconstructed farm buildings, and a picnic area is available. The monument is open daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day. Access from I-81 is by the way of I-581 through Roanoke to U.S. Route 220, then south 16 miles to Rocky Mount, and north through Burnt Chimney on State Route 122 to the monument entrance.


Address:

12130 B.T. Washington Highway

Hardy, VA 24101-9688

703-721-2094


Website:

http://www.nps.gov/bowa/

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