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Group Seeks To Preserve Building; $1 Million Needed for Arcola Slave Quarters
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The Washington Post
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February 6, 2005
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A preservation group is trying to raise about $1 million to
restore a stone building that once housed slaves near Arcola and turn
it into an educational site for students and tourists.
The building, which may date to Colonial times, has been boarded
up to prevent any more decay and ward off vandalism: The holes in the
wood and tin roof have been covered with asphalt paper and the doors
and windows shuttered with plywood. The building needs a new roof,
repairs to its two crumbling chimneys and new mortar to hold the
stones together.
"You can see it bowing out," said Ellen PercyMiller of Haymarket,
a member of the board of Friends of the Slave Quarters, gesturing
toward one slightly curved ...
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