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Built in 1944, the Mount Vernon Enterprise Lodge No. 3488/ Pride of Fairfax County Lodge #298) is located within the community of Gum Springs, which is located within the greater Alexandria portion of Fairfax County. Gum Springs, established in 1833,…

Shiloh Baptist Church-According to tradition, African Americans from the Mason Neck area and others who had recently moved to Virginia from Maryland formed a religious congregation in 1869. They built a log church on the north side of Gunston Road in…

Spring Bank was an African American Community founded by a free African American Charles Henry Quander when he purchased 88 acres between Alexandria and Gum Springs. The Quander family traced its roots back to the 17th century in the colonies…

This cemetery is the final resting place of both Black and White residents of Gum Springs. The Peake family owned the property from 1762-1805. The Peake family held 3 enslaved people and the area is believed to have been an enslaved cemetery. West…

In 1940 the Army acquired the historic African American Community of Woodlawn. This land was located close to present day Ft Belvoir Elementary School. Woodlawn was a thriving African American Community of single-family homes, a church, school, and…

The land was transferred from Stacey and Elizabeth Snowden to the Trustees of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the early 1900s. The cemetery includes formal markers, fieldstones, concrete and wooden markers, and funeral home markers.