A look at the beginnings of the Fort Totten neighborhood, including a still-existing building that was there at the start, and the vanished village of Rupliville.
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A look at the evolution of Lincoln Road and the expansion of city streets into the former farmland of Washington county. Glenwood Cemetery and Trinity College figure prominently.
In 1967, the city began to demolish the Taylor Street Bridge to make way for the North Central Freeway. It was part of a Congressional plan for new highways through the city. Protests erupted and would challenge powerful forces for control of the city’s future.
With a new reservoir in place, it was time to build a filtration plant to clean the water. It would be the largest ever constructed.
Little Isabel Wall was kicked out of the Brookland School in 1909. Whether she was white or black was a question that roiled the neighborhood.
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.
It was once called “Metropolis View,” but was renamed Edgewood by the Chief Justice of the United States and his beautiful daughter. A story of wealth and scandal.
Bygone Brookland 