• Current Projects, Guinea Road (Gibson/Parker Family) Cemetery, In the News

    Posted on January 6th, 2011

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    Ilda Sign Dedication

    Ilda Sign Dedication

    On Sunday, December 19, 2010, community and family members gathered to dedicate the Ilda historical marker near the intersection of Little River Turnpike and Guinea Road in Annandale.
    The story began in the heart of suburbia when an “old graveyard” was threatened because of road construction. In 2004, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) erected a [...]

  • Current Projects, Guinea Road (Gibson/Parker Family) Cemetery

    Posted on March 16th, 2010

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    Guinea Road (Gibson/Parker Family) Cemetery

    Guinea Road (Gibson/Parker Family) Cemetery

    The cemetery was located at the intersection of Guinea Road and Little River Turnpike (Route 236). In the 1860s, Horace Gibson and Moses Parker, freed black slaves, had purchased land near the intersection of today’s Prosperity Avenue and Little River Turnpike. Together they owned and operated a blacksmith shop there. Oral tradition related that children [...]