Antoinette Margot moved to Brookland in 1889 and built an impressive house she called Theodoron. She went on to help found St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Month: November 2014
The story of the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery, started after the first battle of Bull Run in July, 1861.
Poet and Howard University professor Sterling Brown writes an illuminating response to Jeremiah O’Leary’s nostalgic column on growing up in Brookland.
Bygone Brookland 