This story map is a collaborative project of the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County (AAHA) & The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC). We gratefully acknowledge the work and support provided by Fauquier County GIS Department in completing this project. The project is funded by the PATH Foundation.

In Fauquier County, as in many regions throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, African American communities born during the Reconstruction-era have thrived by way of a shared life story. For at least 150 years, these families and their descendants have lived and learned, worked and worshipped, celebrated and mourned.

In this story map, we attempt to tell the history of the lives of these often overlooked and omitted Americans from history’s pages.