Slabtown

Most black families live here, as they have for 150 years, in a neighborhood once known as Slabtown, after the wide plank lumber used in home construction.

Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010

This overcrowding was, however, gradually relieved by the establishment of another school at "Slabtown" (an impromptu suburb of Hampton), and by the building of the "Lincoln

Hampton and its Students. By Two of its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Mary Frances 1874

Writing from Slabtown, Virginia, Bill Emory writes about the memories left behind at a local estate sale.

Virginia Blog Carnival XXXI 2006

The school at Slabtown, started by the students with twenty scholars, had over a hundred last Sabbath.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 06, June, 1889 Various

Hiram went off in the Slabtown stage, with a tin-box on his knees, instead of in a shell-shaped boat with silken sails; but I know Nancy reads love-stories with great zest, and I know she had a slow fever after Hiram was married.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

She was beyond the village now and another mile and a half would bring her to Slabtown.

The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story 1883

She had to walk all the way back -- she had to pass Slabtown again.

The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story 1883

When she caught sight of the sawmill where the Slabtown men earned their bread, her feet began to drag again.

The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story 1883

But the next day after breakfast the two set off for Slabtown.

The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story 1883

The Poor Thing seemed to find something particularly attractive about the Slabtown settlement, and liked better to go in that direction than any other.

The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story 1883