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On an unseasonably warm February afternoon, a few hundred people gathered at the University of Mary Washington's Jepson Alumni Center in Fredericksburg to celebrate the opening of the civil rights trail: Freedom, a Work in Progress.
The trail has two parts: Part one is a 2.6-mile walk through the historic downtown district.
The other section is a driving/walking tour through the Mary Washington campus, including stops at the historic Shiloh Cemetery and the Dorothy Hart Community Center.
Photos by Scott Elmquist.