4) Booker T. Washington Birthplace, Franklin County, VA
It’s now an historic national landmark in Franklin County Virginia. It’s another example of a replicated cabin birthplace of a famous American. Booker T. Washington, who was eventually freed from slavery, stated it best: “I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.” The cabin you can visit now is a replica of a typical slave cabin of that time, which was built in 1960. The large main house where the Burroughs family resided, is also gone. It was “mysteriously” burned some time after the slaves were freed. In his autobiography, Up from Slavery, he describes being “born in a typical log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square.”
