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Fred
Washington Remembers Living in a Segregated Herndon
When Fred Washington was installing a whirlpool
in his Northgate home, he went to what was then Hechinger's
in Reston to find a missing part. Hechinger's didn't have
what he needed, but the clerk recommended that he try H&S
Plumbing in Herndon.
"Where's that?" Washington asked. He was born
and raised in Herndon but had never even heard of that place.
Oh it's easy, the clerk replied, you just take Baron Cameron
until it becomes Elden Street, make a left onto Grant Street
and it's the white house over on Grove Street.
Washington said his face nearly fell off. He couldn't believe
it. Sure enough, when he arrived at H&S Plumbing, that was
his house, the house he was born in, the house he grew up
in, the house his mother was born in, and the house his
grandfather had built in the late 19th century.
"It gave me cold chills," he remembered. "It
was the first time I had been in that house since 1945."
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