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Welcome to downtown Washington DC - an area rich in history, culture and places to see. You will enjoy visiting the following sites located in the vicinity of this sign.
Clockwise from top:
"Lone Sailor" at the US Navy Memorial
The US Navy Me…
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Howard University's Employment, educational, and cultural opportunities have attracted and kept families in LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale for generations. Ettyce Hill Moore, a third generation Washingtonian who grew up at 128 V Street in t…
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In 1608 Captain John Smith sailed up the Potomac, the first European to lay eyes on this site. At that time, ships could sail up to this point, and beautiful bluffs led down to the water. Algonquin Indians lived here in great numbers, draw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21W3_scurlock-studio-site_Washington-DC.html
Addison Scurlock (1883-1964) was the photographer of black Washington, specializing in dignified portraiture. In 1911 he opened a studio at 900 U Street (just west of the building of that address erected in 1999). The Scurlock Studio photographed …
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Carter G. Woodson, The Father of Black History, worked and lived at 1538 Ninth Street from 1912 until 1950. The son of formerly enslaved people. Woodson received a Ph.D. from Harvard, and became an acclaimed scholar, educator, and advocate. He fou…
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In This Building
On May 16-17, 1907
—The—
Northern Baptist Convention
Was Formed and
The Hon. Charles Evans Hughes
Elected Its First President
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VDB_blanche-k-bruce-house-historical_Washington-DC.html
Blanche K. Bruce Househas been designated aNational Historic LandmarkThis site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America1977National Park ServiceUnited States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V2Q_along-the-nile-valley-historical_Washington-DC.html
With its Afro-centric shops and connections to Howard University, this stretch of Georgia Avenue has been called the "Nile Valley." Blue Nile Botanicals opened first at 2826 Georgia in 1977. Hodari Ali, a former editor of Howard's studen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1USZ_beyond-the-basics-historical_Washington-DC.html
During the Civil War, thousands of once-enslaved people crowded into DC, desperate for shelter, work, and protection. Most vulnerable were orphans and children separated from their families. In 1863 the National Association for the Relief of Desti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TCR_washington-conservatory-of-music-and-school-of-expression-historical_Washington-DC.html
902 T Street, NWThe Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression, which operated in this building from 1903 until 1960, was one of DC's earliest African American arts institutions.Harriet Gibbs-Marshall (1868-1941), the first African …