Historical outbuilding within Mount Zion Cemetery, believed to be a waystation on the Underground Railroad.
This windowless brick structure once served as a winter corpse storage vault, offering a desperate hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.
📜 Explore a significant Black history site in Washington, D.C.
🚶♀️ Visit a quiet park that was nearly lost to redevelopment.
📚 Learn about the clandestine nature and oral histories of the Underground Railroad.
💡 Understand the desperation for freedom during slavery.
💤 Unmarked and obscure, may be challenging to locate without prior knowledge.
🗺️ Located in the hills above Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek.
🗣️ Significance kept alive through generations of Georgetown's Black community oral histories.
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