Washington church marks 176th anniversary of greatest attempted slave escape

Rev. Brian Hamilton tapped his microphone, signaling the beginning of his service at Westminster Presbyterian Church in honor of the 176th anniversary of the greatest attempted escape of enslaved people in American history — which happened in Washington.

Deep in the woods, an incredible story behind a former enslaved woman’s grave

KING GEORGE, Va. – “Have you seen the gravesite?” a neighbor asked. “Seen what?” Amanda Sciaretta responded. The weather was pleasant the day Sciaretta joined her father and daughter for a walk around her new neighborhood in the fall of…