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Tag: Washington Aqueduct

  • HISTORIC PLACES

Creating McMillan Park

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 5, 2021October 19, 2021

Turning an industrial site into a public park in the early 1900s.

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  • HISTORIC PLACES

Building the Filter

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 24, 2021October 14, 2022

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.

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  • LOCAL LORE

Bringing Water to Brookland

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on December 2, 2020October 15, 2022

The story of the Washington Aqueduct that brought water into the city, and the ill-fated Lydecker tunnel.

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Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill and the fight to stay in their Brookland home

Building the Filter

The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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