• Facebook
  • Twitter
Search

Bygone Brookland

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About

Tag: featured

  • ON THIS SPOT

Fort Bunker Hill’s Second Life

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 8, 2019January 17, 2021

Although it never saw action during the Civil War, Fort Bunker Hill (above, Library of Congress), along…

Read More
  • LOCAL LORE

Bill Jones, the Avenger

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on June 9, 2017January 17, 2021

National Hero or Neighborhood Eccentric? November 19, 1881, 3pm: The most hated man in America sat uncomfortably in…

Read More
  • LOCAL LORE

The Fascinating History of Edgewood

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on March 6, 2017January 15, 2021

It Was Once Called Metropolis View That chunk of land to the west of Colonel…

Read More
  • ON THIS SPOT

How the Monroe Street Bridge Changed the Face of Brookland

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on August 14, 2016January 12, 2021

The Monroe Street bridge is about to undergo a complete and long-needed rehabilitation. The original…

Read More
  • LOCAL LORE

The Bodies in the Intersection

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on April 13, 2016January 11, 2021

1887: Col. Jehiel Brooks had died the previous year and his 200+ acres of land…

Read More
  • PORTRAITS

The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on March 29, 2015January 6, 2021

It was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ second published novel, The Yearling, that made her internationally famous and…

Read More
  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

The Legacy of Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on December 12, 2014January 6, 2021

In November of 1945, Ada Reeves bought a charming little bungalow at 1303 Kearny St.…

Read More
  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

O’Leary Column Prompts Telling Response from Sterling Brown

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on November 2, 2014January 5, 2021

Race issues have been a dominant part of Washington city life ever since the Great…

Read More

Featured Posts

The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

O’Leary Column Prompts Telling Response from Sterling Brown

The Legacy of Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants

How the Monroe Street Bridge Changed the Face of Brookland

The Fascinating History of Edgewood

Fort Bunker Hill’s Second Life

The Bodies in the Intersection

Bill Jones, the Avenger

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Blogroll

  • Brookland Bridge
  • Brookland Neighborhood Civic Association
  • Ghosts of DC
  • Historical Society of Washington
  • Streets of Washington
Blog at WordPress.com.
×