A short, photo-rich history of the Brookland neighborhood in Washington DC.
Tag: DC history
Brookland once had a bowling alley with 28 lanes. The Brookland Recreation Center may not have survived, but at least the Art Deco building did.
Bringing Water to Brookland, Pt. 2 As I mentioned in my last post on the…
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…
Although it never saw action during the Civil War, Fort Bunker Hill (above, Library of Congress), along…
So far, the ongoing Robert Mueller probe has brought a slew of indictments and some convictions, but…
I have always found it frustrating that there seemed to be no photographs of Fort…
Bygone Brookland 