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The Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail in VA includes a series of sites recognizing places and people that were significant to the Civil Rights Movement. A 1919 historic grain elevator also included.
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Walking the Civil Rights Trail
Year Round Walk
SN: 127658 - 2025 / Y3557
The event is closed
From Wed, Jan 1st, 2025 to Dec 31st, 2025
Start box available: Visitors Center open 9 am - 4 pm Daily, Best to call first. 540-373-1776.
Physical start box and Online start box (OSB) option
Fredericksburg, Virginia
WARNING: The map pin is for reference only and may not accurately indicate the start box location or the event start.
| Special programs Grain Elevators: Monarchs of the Plains Par-For-The-Course Step to the Beat Town Halls / City Halls Walking with America's Veterans Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail CC: Fredericksburg, City of |
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Event comments
This tour includes sites where Black people created educational, housing, and business opportunities in the midst of Jim Crow era segregation, as well as buildings where people protested racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Fredericksburg’s Civil Rights history continues into the present, and this tour includes sites associated with Black political leaders in the mid to late 20th century. Among the 21 stops on the trail, walkers will learn about the 13 Freedom Riders who’s first stop was in Fredericksburg; hear about Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) and Shiloh Baptist Church (New Site) role in the Civil Rights Movement; learn about John Washington who escaped to freedom across the Rappahannock River to Union Army; and see the Dr. James Farmer memorial at the University of Mary Washington, one of the big six in the Civil Rights Movement. ---This route also includes seeing a historic "Grain Elevator" which qualifies for the SP: Grain Elevators: Monarchs of the Plains. Ours was built in 1919 and has its own youtube link here: https://youtu.be/4ihnmT0n6ec?feature=shared .... also newly painted and visible from afar: https://youtu.be/houCsouZPYg?feature=shared
Rating: 2A, Distance: 5(1A)km
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Restrooms: Yes |
Pets: Yes |
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Strollers: Medium |
Wheelchairs: Hard |
Event information
Our club has a no free walkers policy. All walkers willpay $3 except those walking for AVA credit will pay $4.
Awards: IVV CREDIT ONLY
OSB - First register for the event
The detailed location of, and driving directions to, the event starting point are included in the event directions, downloaded from the Online Start Box (OSB). To plan your travels, please use the map on this page. The POC does not provide event directions nor accept alternate payment methods.
This event also has a physical start box. These are the driving directions:
Fxbg Visitor Center 601 Caroline St., Fxbg, VA 22401. These are the driving directions: VC open 9 am - 4 pm daily. From either direction, Route 95 Exit 130A East. Follow signs Historic Downtown Fredericksburg along Rt 3 (locally named William St.) to Princess Anne St. Right to Princess Anne St, follow to Wolfe St. Left to Wolfe St. 1blk to cross Caroline St. Fredericksburg VC (left). Free parking available in 2 lots on Sophia St. which is 1 block from Caroline St. to River. Or parking garage on Wolfe St. between Caroline St./Sophia St. (1st 3 hours $2, then $1 each addtl hour.) Fredericksburg Visitors Center 601 Caroline St. Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Maps phrase and directions link
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Fredericksburg Visitors Center 601 Caroline St. Fredericksburg, VA 22401 |
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PLEASE do not mix and match between the two registration methods. It will confuse you and the club. Choose one, OSB or PSB, to complete the event.
Fredericksburg Walking Club (AVA-0610)
Event website: www.walkfredericksburg.blog
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