HARDY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Booker T. Washington National Monument had 24,200 visitors in 2024 and those visitors spent $1.7 million in communities nearby, according a report from the National Park ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The state’s Booker T. Washington Commemorative Commission held a meeting Tuesday to discuss plans for a new monument. Franklin County is where Booker T. Washington was born and ...

Booker T. Washington National Monument added $1.7 million to the local economy in 2024 based on a recent National Park Service report.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Like many across America, the prominent Booker T. Washington would not have achieved what he did without a strong motherly influence. Washington’s mother, Jane Ferguson, was ...