Booker T. Washington Homeplace
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Booker T. Washington Homeplace
Located in the historic area of Malden, WV
Waymark Code: WMNAG
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2006
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Washington, born in a slave cabin in Hales Ford, VA, ca. 1856, spent his early childhood in Kanawha Salines, now Malden, where he worked days in the salt industry and attended school for blacks at night. Upon his graduation from Hampton Institute, he returned to teach public and Sunday school for two years. Later, as Tuskegee Institute president, he often visited his half sister Amanda Johnson here.
Marker Number: KA 4
Marker Title: Booker T. Washington Homeplace
Marker Location: Located in the historic area of Malden, WV
County or Independent City: Kanawha
Web Site: [Web Link]
Marker Program Sponsor: West Virginia Department of Culture and History
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