Hidden Gems Walking Tour

Hall’s Hill/High View Park is a historic Black neighborhood located in North Arlington.  Founded in 1866, it was one of eleven Black neighborhoods originally established in the period following the US Civil War in Northern Virginia.  It is comprised of a small area whose structures include single family homes, schools, a community center, places of worship, retail businesses, and a fire house. Its most notable geographic feature is that it is the highest elevation in Arlington County, and this feature led to the renaming of the neighborhood to Highview Park in the 1960s as a means of separating it from its past as a plantation on which enslaved persons lived and worked.  

This walking-tour brochure provides residents, and those “passing through”, with the opportunity to discover people and places that have positively impacted the legacy and longevity of the Halls Hill/High View Park neighborhood. These Hidden Gems  posses a value and beauty that have not always been honored nor appreciated, and therefore have received far less recognition than they deserves.

Join us in learning about, remembering and honoring the brilliance, heroism, resilience, and love of a community we affectionately call HALLS HILL! 

John M. Langston Citizens Association
PO Box 7135   |  Arlington, VA 22207
Infohighviewpark@gmail.com
www.highviewpark.org