February 18, 2015
Queenie (left) and her mother Mildred Cox (right) sit in their Gum Springs house. Mildred has lived in Gum Springs for 70 years after her family moved there from South Carolina.
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Faces of Gum Springs, Alexandria
Residents reflect on their historic community.
Of the current residents of Gum Springs, several hundred are descendants of the original families who bought land and settled in one of northern Virginia’s oldest and historically black communities.
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