"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
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Elise and James Allen with daughters, left to right: Janet, Angela, James O. Allen, Elise F. Allen, Cynthia, Barbara.
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Photo of Charles Ross, retired PR1 from the Navy (2017).
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Venus, mother of West Ford and the grandmother of William Ford. Born on the Bushfield Plantation.
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Signage - "Welcome to Gum Springs" on the corner of Fordson Road and Richmond Hwy.
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This is a rendition drawing of Venus. Venus was born enslaved on the Bushfield Plantation. She was the personal maid of Hannah Washington and served in the manor house along with her parents...
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Obituary of Lena Craig.
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.thumbnail.jpg "A Friend of Gum Springs")
Robert Fasick and Linda Allen Hollis attending the West Ford Community Day and Juneteenth Celebration on June 19, 2021....
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Ford Descendants, Joy Allen Stone, Angela Allen Henry, Linda Allen Hollis, and Ron Chase of the Gum Springs Museum on the grounds of Mount Vernon, posing with flutist. (Photo credit Mark...
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This is the tombstone of Major George W. Ford who is buried in the Camp Butler National Cemetery. Upon his death, Major Ford was given a full military funeral.
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C. Bruce Ford, graduated with honors from Bradley University with a B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics. Bruce rose to the rank of master sergeant in the military in WWII. His career as...
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Younger picture of Bruce Ford.
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Photo of Elise early 20's.
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Photo of Florence Ford, married to Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford. The couple had four children, Elise, Florence, Bruce and Harrison. Florence Ford was a well-known seamtress in Peoria, Illinois....
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View of the Potomac River at Mount Vernon. The two-story porch faces the river. From LABH collection.
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Photo of Linda holding the hand of sculpture of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
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A painting of a young George Washington around 25 years of age. The world into which George Washington was born in 1732 was a comfortable one and wholly dependent on the "peculiar...
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Article on Elise Ford Allen and the Traveler Weekly, page 2. Top Photo left to right: Janet Allen, Barbara Allen Randle, Joy Allen Stone, Angela Allen Henry, Carol Allen Adams, Linda...
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Joyce was a concert pianist when she met and married Harrison Ford.
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William Ford was the son of West Ford and Priscella Bell. William was born abt 1813-1814 on the Mount Vernon Plantation and died in 1874. He married Henrietta Bruce on September 3rd, 1840....
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Entry from Mount Vernon records on slave burials that George Ford visited the plantation in 1929 when two workers were placing the memorial tablet. The workers stated that Ford told them...
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