Booker T. Washington National Monument

Booker T. Washington National Monument in southern Virginia was authorized in 1956. The 224-acre site, 20 miles southeast of Roanoke, features a restoration of the one-room cabin where Booker T. Washington lived as a child, and most of the land of the plantation on which the black educator was born into slavery in 1856. Replicas have been erected of buildings as they might have appeared when he was a boy. An Environmental Education and Cultural Center displays the artifacts, tools, and livestock that would have been found on a farm of this size during the era of Washington's boyhood.