This Peaceful Nature Sanctuary in Washington‚ D.C. Sits on the Ruins of a Plantation
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This Peaceful Nature Sanctuary in Washington‚ D.C. Sits on the Ruins of a Plantation

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed into a tribute to the nation's "conservation president‚" a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home there