The Enslaved of Sully District - Historic Centerville Park and Historic District

The Enslaved of Sully District - Historic Centerville Park and Historic District

c. 1760 - present

The owners of Royal Oaks and Mount Gilead used enslaved labor. The Royal Oaks household also included a free African American well before the Civil War (1820). The Newgate Tavern used enslaved and convict labor. Throughout the antebellum period Centreville was a site for hiring out enslaved labor each year. Centreville residents Alexander Grigsby and Robert Whaley were both engaged in the slave trade.

Centreville, Virginia, Its History and Architecture. Eugenia Smith, 1973. Fairfax County Public Library.

Images of America: Centreville and Chantilly. Mary Stachyra Lopez, 2014. Fairfax County Public Library.

Mathew Brady’s First Manassas. Dennis Hogge, 2013. Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library.

Mathew Brady’s Manassas Photo Journal. Dennis Hogge, 2011. Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library.

Northern Virginia History Notes website. Debbie Robison. Accessed at: http://www.novahistory.org/ .

The Millrace. Newsletter of the Historic Centreville Society. Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library.

Remembering Fairfax County, Virginia. Karl Reiner, 2006. Fairfax County Public Library.

Sully

the Centreville Historic District is north of Route 29 and east of Route 28. Most historic sites are along Braddock Road, Mount Gilead Road, and Wharton Lane