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Article: FREDERICKSBURG'S LOCATION DRAWS SLAVERY MUSEUM MANY AGREE CITY WILL REAP ECONOMIC BENEFITS.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2001
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Byline: KATRICE FRANKLIN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
In the end it wasn't money, what cities could offer or even relationships that have been fostered for years.
What sold former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder on building a national slavery museum in Fredericksburg was the land. The property's riverfront access and its proximity to the nation's capital and to several homes of presidents whose families ran slave plantations were deciding factors.
``Have you seen the land?'' Wilder asked by telephone Tuesday. ``It's 2 1/2 miles from the Greyhound station, five miles from the Amtrak station, 20 miles on both sides of the river bank are protected from commercial ...