. >>> i am craig syphax of the black heritage museum. we have a website and we are a virtual museum and one of our focuses is to enrich the story of freeing the village. we have worked with the park easter vis and the university and the simthsonians. it is an entity that was formed in 1863 to combat of an outbreak of the small papox because of t emancipation. during this outbreak, the army contacted the american military association which is a group of women who were nurses that cared for injured soldiers. they ask them what was the best way to contain the smallpox and they came up with the idea to put them in one area and of containment and contained it that way and that created freedman's village. the residents of freedman were emancipated slaves. they came this way because there were jobs in the washington dc. area. they were building the washington monument and federal buildings and things of that sort of. washington dc was building of, there were construction jobs in this area and everyone heard about it so they migrated into this a