Black Heritage

Oral History

HLF published two volumes of interview transcripts with elders of the African American community — The House on Fuller Street (2013) and Return to Fuller Street (2020), both by Beverly Tucker, former HLF president, with illustrations by Bruce Macdonald.

Click below to read some of those interviews, or here for more information on the books.

Emily Adamson
Wendell and Priscilla Baker
Leslie Cauthern
Ted DeLaney
Falvorees Jones
Edlow Morrison
Margaret Scott
Alice Sloan
Irma Thompson
Alexander Wood

Antebellum Slave Dwellings
in Northern Rockbridge

The legacy of slavery is one of Historic Lexington Foundation's key themes—with a focus on structures, in keeping with the Foundation's mission. HLF and the Brownsburg Museum, a small but creative and energetic north Rockbridge association, jointly organized a research project and tour of slave dwellings in that area.

Here are the reports on five dwellings and their occupants.