Aquia Creek Quarry.jpg
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Aquia Creek Quarry, photograph by Fernando O. Gonzalez, c. 2015. Originally published in the Library of Congress Blog, October 23, 2015. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/pic-of-the-week-public-quarry-on-government-island-virginia/.
This file appears in: Aquia Creek Quarry: Capital City Slavery Tour
Aquia Creek Quarry: Capital City Slavery Tour
Originally owned by the first mayor of Washington D.C., Robert Brent, and located around 45 miles southwest of Capitol Hill in Northern Virginia, Aquia Creek Quarry played a significant role in the early development of Washington, D.C. Brent, an…