Hale's Ford is a small unincorporated community located in the northeastern corner of Franklin County, Virginia about 25 miles (40 km) from Roanoke.

It is most notable as the location of the Burroughs Farm, the tobacco plantation where the famed educator and orator Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856.

His mother Jane was an enslaved black woman held by the Burroughs and his father was a white planter who lived nearby.

[2] Some of the community is included within the Westlake Corner census-designated place.

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