It used to be a plantation owned by Robert Carter III.
The graves are in Bull Run Regional Park next to the Atlantis Waterpark in Centerville in Fairfax County, Virginia .
When I found out, I got it in a text, I was in a chair jumping up and down I was so happy,” said Chrystal Gaskins, a resident of Spotsylvania County. “Robert Carter III was one of the richest people in the American colonies at the time,” said Paul Gilbert, the Executive Director of NOVA Parks. “And he certainly knew George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and all the other founders. He actually believed when people said all people were created equal, that they were.”On January 1, 1791, 70 years before the Civil War, Carter signed a Deed of Gift which gradually freed his 500 enslaved individuals beginning with the oldest.
Enslaved African Americans Graves Robert Carter III Emancipation Atlantis Waterpark Bull Run Regional Park Chrystal Gaskins
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