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Author: Robert Malesky

  • HISTORIC PLACES

Building the Filter

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

Bringing Water to Brookland, Pt. 2 As I mentioned in my last post on the…

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  • LOCAL LORE

Bringing Water to Brookland

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on December 2, 2020February 17, 2021

It wasn’t as if Brookland didn’t have enough water. The land upon which Brookland developed…

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  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

Walking the Color Line in 1909

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on May 21, 2020January 14, 2021

Little 7-year-old Isabel Wall, blonde and blue-eyed, bounced along beside her mother as they walked…

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  • LOCAL LORE

The Enslaved Families Who Worked This Land

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 12, 2020December 28, 2020

If you’re interested in the local history of this area, you probably know some of…

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  • ON THIS SPOT

Fort Slemmer and the Angry Florist

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on January 24, 2020December 22, 2020

In July of 1861, the loss at the first battle of Bull Run and the…

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  • ON THIS SPOT

Brookland in 1910

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 31, 2019December 23, 2020

The DC Public Library contains some fabulous online materials for those interested in Washington history.…

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  • PORTRAITS

Roy Deferrari, Breaker of Barriers

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on June 13, 2019December 23, 2020

I’ve written before about Brookland’s good fortune in attracting Howard University faculty to the neighborhood.…

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  • PORTRAITS

Loïs Mailou Jones and the Little Paris Studio

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 13, 2019December 23, 2020

It’s an unpretentious house on Quincy Street that might easily be overlooked if not for…

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  • ON THIS SPOT

Fort Bunker Hill’s Second Life

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 8, 2019January 17, 2021

Although it never saw action during the Civil War, Fort Bunker Hill (above, Library of Congress), along…

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  • LOCAL LORE

A River Used to Run Through It

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on October 8, 2018December 23, 2020

Well, not really a river, more like brooks and creeks, and they were liberally sprinkled…

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