His son Joseph E. Washington followed him into politics, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1897.

After the war and emancipation, most of the freedmen stayed on the plantation, with some working as domestic servants for the family, and most as sharecroppers.

[3] In the 1890s, Joseph Washington and his wife commissioned portraits of some of their servants from noted artist Maria Howard Weeden of Huntsville, Alabama.

[4] After Joseph's death, his widow Mary Bolling Kemp Washington owned the plantation from 1915 to 1938.

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