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07038.ED – Archilles Dixon was one of 540 free blacks in Jefferson County in 1850. He and his wife, Ellen Dixon, owned a house and a blacksmith shop on the corner of Samuel and Liberty Streets in Charles Town. They allowed teacher Annie Dudley the use of one room for her classroom in order to teach black children. It was balled the Liberty Street school and was used until sometime between 1867 and 1874 when the county began its own public school education for blacks, at which time it built a brick building for said purpose.