Bringing Water to Brookland, Pt. 2 As I mentioned in my last post on the…
Author: Robert Malesky
It wasn’t as if Brookland didn’t have enough water. The land upon which Brookland developed…
Little 7-year-old Isabel Wall, blonde and blue-eyed, bounced along beside her mother as they walked…
If you’re interested in the local history of this area, you probably know some of…
In July of 1861, the loss at the first battle of Bull Run and the…
The DC Public Library contains some fabulous online materials for those interested in Washington history.…
I’ve written before about Brookland’s good fortune in attracting Howard University faculty to the neighborhood.…
It’s an unpretentious house on Quincy Street that might easily be overlooked if not for…
Although it never saw action during the Civil War, Fort Bunker Hill (above, Library of Congress), along…
Well, not really a river, more like brooks and creeks, and they were liberally sprinkled…
