Turning an industrial site into a public park in the early 1900s.
Tag: DC history
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…
Fifty years may seem a very long time ago, but when remembering an extraordinary occurence, it…
While researching the history of Edgewood and Metropolis View, I came across an 1895 story in the Washington…
