Locust Grove Foundation

03/12/2026

02/28/2026

At the Black Business Expo in Wi******er, VA, Locust Grove highlights its various projects and fundraising efforts to increase awareness.

02/26/2026

This Saturday, please come out and support The Locust Grove Foundation. We will be at Millwood Station from 11:00-5:00. The below listed businesses will be there along with other vendors.

05/24/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who showed up today — whether you bought a plate, a combo, or simply stopped by to donate or show love. Your support means the world to us, and we’re truly grateful for each and every one of you.

05/24/2025

TODAY until 4:00 or SOLD OUT!!!!

05/24/2025

Come on out to Trinity Luthern Church Main Street Stephens City and help out the Locust Grove Foundation. We are selling hot fresh dinners and hot dog combos.

03/27/2025

This is so important to know especially with summer coming up! 💦 Source 👇🏼

03/27/2025

03/18/2025

This is one of the reasons the Locust Grove Foundation works hard to raise funds for the future care of the cemetery. This has happened far too many times. We have to try and preserve, protect and restore our historic black cemeteries.

STAR TANNERY — At the top of a tree-covered hill off South Pifer Road, a little known but significant piece of history lies hidden beneath fallen leaves and branches.

03/13/2025

Head out today or even get it to go just make sure you put it in the note section

Support Locust Grove at Texas Roadhouse!
Join us for a fundraiser night at Texas Roadhouse on Thursday February 27th and again on March 13th. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Locust Grove! Just mention “Locust Grove” when you order.
Bring your family and friends, and help us raise funds for a great cause!

02/26/2025

Support Locust Grove at Texas Roadhouse!
Join us for a fundraiser night at Texas Roadhouse on Thursday February 27th and again on March 13th. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Locust Grove! Just mention “Locust Grove” when you order.
Bring your family and friends, and help us raise funds for a great cause!

02/09/2025

With emancipation, African American women succeeded as contracted laborers in agriculture, service, and professional careers in law, education, and business. Thousands entered common, normal, and trade schools – and others, universities, and colleges to gain professional certification and degrees. Women like Mary McLeod Bethune aided in the building of this new labor force by opening schools that encouraged self-sufficiency, industry expertise, and altruism among Black girls and women. Bethune founded the Dayton Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1904. Her first students were five girls and her five-year-old son. Seven years later, Bethune opened the Mary McLeod Hospital and Training School for Nurses to train Black women in healthcare professions.

Decades later, during World War II, McLeod, along with A. Philip Randolph and Eleanor Roosevelt lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to stipulate government contracts for the war must hire people of color and women. This ushered an estimated 600,000 African American women into factories where airplanes, tanks, and ships for the war effort were assembled. Celebrating women on the assembly lines as patriotic, painter Norman Rockwell depicted the image of “Rosie the Riveter” (1943) in overalls and headscarf with welding tools and muscles. “Black Rosies” helped dispel gender and racial stereotypes surrounding labor while forging new opportunities for African American women.
Learn more: https://s.si.edu/4hhcmPF



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