Sound Effect

How the Son of a Slave Founded Centralia: Sound Effect, Episode 120.5


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Washington State is, of course, named after founding father George Washington. But there’s another George Washington, also a founding father, who settled in a little corner of the territory with his wife Mary Jane nearly 150 years ago. There he founded a town called Centerville, later changed to Centralia. What makes Washington an unusual pioneer-type is that he was African-American, born in Virginia to a white woman and a black slave. Now, some 200 years later, George Washington has become a
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Sound EffectBy Gabriel Spitzer and Jennifer Wing

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