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The principal office of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company stood on this site. Founded on March 3, 1865 to receive deposits from former slaves, the company later had Frederick Douglass as its last president. The bank closed on June 29, 1874. The building was sold in 1882 and razed a few years later.
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Washington, District of Columbia · United States
