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The Enslaved Families Who Worked This Land

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 12, 2020March 19, 2023

Slavery was legal in Washington DC until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act. Through it, we can learn a great deal about those people held in bondage in what would become Brookland.

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Fort Slemmer and the Angry Florist

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on January 24, 2020October 14, 2022

When the US Army built a ring of earthen forts around the city at the start of the Civil War, it upended the lives of many landowners. Florist Henry Douglass was one of them.

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Brookland in 1910

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 31, 2019October 14, 2022

A panoramic photograph of the Brookland neighborhood from 1910 reveals a number of fascinating details.

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Roy Deferrari, Breaker of Barriers

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on June 13, 2019October 14, 2022

Catholic University professor Roy Deferrari lived in Brookland for four decades, and made profound changes at the University, promoting racial equity and women’s rights.

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Loïs Mailou Jones and the Little Paris Studio

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 13, 2019October 15, 2022

Loïs Mailou Jones, acclaimed artist and professor of design and watercolor at Howard University, lived in Brookland, where she set up the “Little Paris Studio,” to work with artists of color.

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Fort Bunker Hill’s Second Life

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 8, 2019October 15, 2022

After the Civil War, the fortifications ringing the city had no further purpose and most were soon built over. Fort Bunker Hill had a different future.

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A River Used to Run Through It

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on October 8, 2018October 15, 2022

Many streams and brooks once ran through Brookland. They were piped underground as the neighborhood grew. Maps show where they once ran.

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General Orville Babcock: Some Old Time Corruption

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on September 28, 2018October 15, 2022

Orville Babcock, Civil War General and close friend of President Grant, once owned a small farm in the area. He was also the root of a major scandal in the Grant Administration.

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Finding Fort Bunker Hill

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on May 21, 2018October 15, 2022

An 1861 photograph from the Civil War supposedly showed a view of Fort Slocum. Research shows it actually depicts Fort Bunker Hill.

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Catholic University, Brookland, and the Riots of 1968

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on March 29, 2018October 15, 2022

A personal account of the tension and anguish in Washington DC in the days after Martin Luther King’s assassination.

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