Lafayette Square Map
To use the cell phone tour dial 1 (202) 595-1859, then the number of a stop listed below.
101# Instructions and info

102# Introduction by D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty

103# Lafayette Square An enslaved woman buys her freedom and changes the nation's history...

104# Andrew Jackson Statue
A slave helps craft this statue and the Capitol's statue of freedom...

105# The White House
From slavery to sit-ins...
106# Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. (today site of the Treasury Annex) $3M dollars vanish without a trace...

107# Rodgers House/Belasco Theater (today Court of Claims entrance) A command performance by the first African American opera star...

108# Lillian Evanti Recording*

109# Tayloe House Compensated emancipation, only in DC...

110# Dolley Madison's House A former slave shows charity toward an impoverished First lady...
111# St. John's Church Free and enslaved African Americans are married at the President's Parish...

112# Weddings at St. John's

113# Civil Rights Era 

114# Daniel Webster's House (today site of US Chamber of Commerce) A slave plans a daring escape, but has a change of heart...

115# Jennings' Letter
116# Decatur House Slave Quarters Men, women and children from two families living together in 900sq. ft...

117# Members of Gadsby's Enslaved Household

118# Decatur House
Where Charlotte Dupuy takes a brave stand against slavery...

119# 712 Jackson Place (today site of the Truman Foundation)
Murder or self-defense? Will justice be served on Jackson Place?...

120# Ewell House
(today site of 734-736 Jackson Place) Buying, selling, and resisting...
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