High View Park (Halls Hill), Arlington, Virginia | |
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  High View Park (Halls Hill), Arlington, Virginia Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia | |
| Coordinates: 38°53′13″N 77°8′22″W / 38.88694°N 77.13944°W | |
| Country |  United States of America |
| State |  Virginia |
| County |  Arlington |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP codes | 22207 |
| Area code | 703/571 |
High View Park (also known as "Halls Hill") is a neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. Its approximate borders are Lee Highway to the north, North George Mason Drive to the west, Slater Park to the east. The southern boundary is a wall, built in the 1930's to separate it from the white neighborhood of Woodlawn Park (now Waycroft-Woodlawn).[1]
Prior to the Civil War, the area was owned by a slaveholder named Bazil Hall. After the war, Hall sold much of the property to freed slaves. The area was later merged with an adjacent area known as High View Park[2]
The first four black students to integrate public schools in Virginia were residents of High View Park, attending the formerly all-white H-B Woodlawn in February of 1959.[3] Douglas E. Moore served as pastor of the Calloway Church in High View Park for three years[4]
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edit- ^ https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/historical-marker-makes-note-of-arlington-segregation-wall-and-its/article_1ce691fe-fcfa-11e6-a962-4ba50d686ad3.html
- ^ ibid.
- ^ Jones, Wilma (2018). Halls Hill - My Halls Hill Family, More than a Neighborhood. ISBN-13:978-1-728302-0-2. Middletown, DE.
- ^ ibid.
Municipalities and communities of Arlington County, Virginia, United States | ||
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Category:Neighborhoods in Arlington County, Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia