Walk in Lincoln's Final Footsteps: Elizabeth Keckley

Elizabeth Keckley was Mary Lincoln's dressmaker. Born in slavery in Dinwiddie County, Keckley would buy her freedom before moving to Washington D.C. and working for Mrs. Lincoln. She would return to the area near where she was born when the President and his family visited the Tri-Cities in the waning days of the Civil War.

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