Guided Tours

A park ranger leads a group of high school students on an interpretive tour through the reconstructed historic core of the monument.

NPS/Linda Coldiron

Ranger Program: Born Here, Freed Here

Offered Wednesdays through Sundays at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm
May 1, 2026 – September 30, 2026
Starting location: Visitor Center Back Porch

Join a member of park staff for a 45-minute walking tour of the site where Booker T. Washington was born and freed at the age of 9. Learn about Washington’s enslaved childhood on the Burroughs plantation and how the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation here in 1865 fulfilled the Declaration of Independence’s promise that “all men are created equal.”