This Peaceful Nature Sanctuary in Washington, D.C. Sits on the Ruins of a Plantation | History

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed into a tribute to the nation's "conservation president," a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home there

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