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Fairfax County History commissioner Debbie Robison and her father Frank Palmer stand behind the new Civil War historical marker in Burke.

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New Civil War Marker Honors African-American Woodcutters in Burke

Centreville resident Debbie Robison hasn’t chopped a cord of lumber or laid a railroad trestle. But for more than a year she’s done hard labor at the National Archives and Records Administration, researching Civil War-era railroad workers in Northern Virginia.

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