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Carver Nursery School / Post 129 is located at 214 North Fayette Street, Alexandria VA 22314. It is a modest, wood-frame building that has played an important role in the segregated history of Alexandria. During World War II, the federal government encouraged women to join the war effort by providing safe and affordable daycare. In Alexandria, as elsewhere, racial segregation was the norm; the Carver School was completed in 1944 and operated as a segregated nursery school for children of African American war workers. After the war, federal support for day care ended but Alexandria's working mothers lobbied the city to keep the nurseries open. The city agreed to operate two white nurseries and the Carver School but doubled the monthly fees to $27. In the black community, social clubs helped fund Carver students. The nursery ultimately closed in 1950 and the building then served as a segregated American Legion post. By 2010, the building was vacant and neglected and came close to demolition. It was finally preserved and adaptively reused in 2014.

Virginia was one of the 13 colonies and many of our Founding Fathers are directly tied to Northern Virginia. And, several major Civil War campaigns occurred in or near this area.

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