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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DSW_moving-between-old-and-new_Washington-DC.html
Moving between Old and New. Everyday People Columbia Heights Art on Call. Youth from the Latin American Youth Center—Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collabo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24LE_a-village-comes-to-life-mount-pleasant-after-the-civil-war_Washington-DC.html
As dust from the Civil War settled, the nation's capital entered a new phase of growth. The expanding government needed more workers, who in turn needed more housing. An entrepreneur named Samuel Brown bought a large tract of land outside Washingt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24LC_harvest-at-pleasant-plains-ca-1750_Washington-DC.html
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Harvest at Pleasant Plains,
ca. 1750
By the late 17th century, English colonial settlements and tobacco plantations had reached what is now Washington, DC. By the 1750s the ports of Alexandria and Georgetown were built, and soon afterward a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2481_community-builders_Washington-DC.html
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Harry Wardman, Washington's prolific developer, built nearly all of the 300 houses to your right between Monroe Street and Spring Road. Wardman, an English immigrant and self-made millionaire, became known for his rowhouses, whos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM245H_a-changing-landscape_Washington-DC.html
A Changing Landscape
For nearly a century, between 1862 and 1962, streetcars in Washington, D.C. carried people across the District. The first streetcars were drawn by horses and could only carry people short distances, but the introduction of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM245G_amusement-palace_Washington-DC.html
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The intersection of 14th Street and Park Road has been the center of community life since at least 1871, when the neighborhood was called Mount Pleasant and storekeeper George Emery made his living on the northwest corner to your…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM245F_a-city-in-itself_Washington-DC.html
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Columbia Heights by the mid 1920s was a center of white elite activity and commerce. The elegant, Neoclassical style Riggs Bank branch and the Italian Renaissance style Tivoli Theater opened to great acclaim. Soon after, radio st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2455_streetcar-suburb_Washington-DC.html
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Lamont Park, across from the number 42 bus stop, was once the turnaround for the numbers 40 and 42 streetcars. Back in the 1940s, "when the conductor called 'end of the line,' passengers stepped onto a yellow wooden platform," re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2454_at-home-and-abroad_Washington-DC.html
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At Home and Abroad:
The War Years 1941-45
Even before the United States entered World War II in 1941, thousands of workers from across the country streamed into Washington to fill new military and government jobs. The swelling population ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2453_the-first-bodega_Washington-DC.html
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The 1960s saw this neighborhood develop a Latino presence, and this became its Main Street. The storefront at 3161 Mt. Pleasant Street once housed Casa Diloné , the first bodega (grocery) here. From 1962 until 1998, Casa D…