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 * ...that Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?" (Maggie L. Walker NHS, pictured)
 * ...that Charles Dickens composed the epitaph for the tombstone of Charles Irving Thornton despite never having met the dead child or his family?
 * ... that Debedeavon, the Laughing King of the Accawmacke Virginia Indian tribe, and an Englishman whom he adopted named Thomas Savage, warned the settlers at Jamestown of the impending 1622 Massacre?
 * ... that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army, the Potomac Creek Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days?
 * ... that Harrison Howell Dodge, who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon, often slept in the house as a night guard?

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