This tobacco farm in Franklin County, Virginia was where Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856 and spent the first nine years of his life before emancipation; he went on to found Tuskegee University and become the most influential Black leader in America in the late 19th century. Reconstructed plantation structures — the cabin where he was born, the kitchen, and the smokehouse — along with an interpretive trail tell the story of enslaved life on a small Virginia farm.