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D.C. is ideally located between the banks of two rivers and bordered by Virginia to the south and Maryland to the north and east. Following the elaborate city plan laid out by Pierre L'Enfant, Washington has grown considerably over the past 235 years. Contrary to its current look, in an earlier time, D.C. was a predominantly rural area with large tracts of land extending in all directions from the U.S. Capitol. Today, it is the seventh largest metropolitan area in the country.
The history of Adams Morgan lies in its name. Prior to 1956, the area was typically referred to as 18 th and Columbia, but when the area began to suffer from &q...
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The area known as Anacostia is often confused with the entire area touching the Anacostia River. In reality, it is much smaller than that. Anacostia is located i...
Tenleytown dates back to the 1700s and is the second oldest settlement in the D.C. area, next to Georgetown. It was originally the last outpost for farmers deliv...
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Bloomingdale is in Northwest DC, just north of the Capitol, alongside Ledroit Park. The Bloomingdale area was not part of Pierre L’Enfant’s original city pla...
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The Brentwood community in the northeast quadrant of Washington takes its name from Brentwood Mansion, built in 1817 by the first mayor of Washington City, Rober...
Brightwood is bounded by Aspen Street, Rock Creek Park, Georgia Avenue and Kennedy Street. The community is home to what is often considered to be the city’s m...
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Like many other DC neighborhoods, Brookland’s growth was spurred by the arrival of a major transportation line. In this case the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ra...
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Before the hot air of bureaucracy settled over Capitol Hill in 1791, the area was rural farmland better known as Jenkins Hill. While Capitol Hill may not represe...
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To many residents of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Chevy Chase is almost synonymous with Maryland. But this definition only describes one half of a lar...
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The history of Cleveland Park dates back to a land patent issued by Lord Baltimore in 1713 to Thomas Addison and James Stoddert. The original land grant stretche...
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The community of Colonial Village occupies the northernmost point of the District of Columbia. It is bound by 16 th Street, Holly Street and Bach Drive. Settlem...
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Columbia Heights is located in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Prior to its development, Columbia Heights was mostly farmland. Columbia Heights was...
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Crestwood is bounded by 16 th Street NW, on the east, Colorado Avenue on the northwest and Rock Creek Park on the west and south. The history of Crestwood can...
DuPont Circle lies at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, P Street and 19 th Street. DuPont Circle was located i...
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Foggy Bottom is located west of Downtown, D.C. in the Northwest quadrant. It was the site of one of the earliest settlements, and is one of the oldest neighborho...
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Forest Hills is located in Northwest D.C. Like Chevy Chase to the north, the environment of Forest Hills is lush - tall, thick trees line arching streets that co...
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The Fort Totten neighborhood in Northeast DC takes its name from a Civil War-era fort, one of a series of defenses built around the perimeter of the District aft...
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Georgetown is located in Northwest D.C. Glover Park lies to the north, Foggy Bottom to the east. Rosslyn rests right over the Key Bridge. The communi...
Glover Park is a primarily residential area located off Wisconsin Avenue a half mile north of Georgetown and west of the U.S. Naval Observatory. Development of G...
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In many respects, the K Street community is really downtown Washington. Almost entirely commercial in nature, it encompasses some of the most important buildings...
Kalorama and Kalorama Triangle are both located in Northwest, D.C. These communities lie just south of Woodley Park, on the opposite side of Rock Creek Park. Ada...
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Kent is located in Northwest D.C., along the Potomac River, just over the D.C-Maryland boundary line. Quality of Life: Residential neighborhood close to Si...
LeDroit Park is located in Northwest D.C. near Howard University. The community was developed by Amzi Barber and Andrew Langdon in 1873. Together, the two men wo...
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During the Civil War, Logan Circle was the site of Camp Barker, whose barracks had been converted into a refugee camp for newly freed slaves from Maryland and Vi...
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Manor Park is a fairly small neighborhood in the upper northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., with the public Manor Park itself at its center; Fort Slocum Park ...
The Michigan Park neighborhood is in the northeast quadrant of the District, and is bounded by Brookland to the west, Manor Park to the north, and Hyattsvil...
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Charles Calvert, the 5 th Lord of Baltimore gave the land that is now Mount Pleasant to James Holmstead in 1727. Holmstead's son inherited the land in 1750, nam...
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Mt. Vernon Square/Convention Center is an ambiguous label used to describe the developments north of Chinatown and Gallery Place. In contemporary contexts, it is...
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The D.C. Navy Yard was instituted in 1799 and was the nation’s largest shipbuilding facility at the time. The Navy Yard played a vital role in the development ...
In the 1790s, Notley Young acquired a large parcel of land from several different landowners and named it Youngsborough. Shortly after he gave the land to the Fe...
The Palisades community was developed in 1893 when the Palisades Improvement Company decided to capitalize on the recent addition of the new D.C. streetcar line ...
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The Penn Quarter neighborhood is often considered a part of the Downtown, D.C. area. Penn Quarter’s growth stemmed from the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Cor...
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Petworth was originally the site of two country estates in Washington County, D.C.: Petworth, the 204-acre estate of Colonel John Taylor, and the Marshall Brown ...
The communities of Shaw and Howard University grew out of the freed slave encampments outside Washington City, then known as “Uptown.” The name didn’t shif...
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Shepherd Park was named after Alexander Robey Shepherd, who was the governor of D.C. from 1874-1875. Shepherd moved to the neighborhood in 1868 and built a Secon...
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History and Geography: Southeast has a rich cultural history. Residents live in close proximity to Capitol Hill, the Navy Yard, the Marine Barracks, the Anaco...
As the name would suggest, the Southwest Waterfront is located in the District’s Southwest quadrant at the meeting point of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. ...
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Spring Valley is located in the Northwest quadrant of D.C. and sits between the 80 acres of the American University and the Wesley Theological Seminary on the ea...
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Located east of the northernmost point in D.C., in the Northwest quadrant, Takoma, DC is a neighborhood that is often confused with its Maryland neighbor, Takoma...
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Wesley Heights is located in D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, just south of Tenleytown. The community is bordered by New Mexico Avenue, Nebraska Avenue and Battery-K...
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The West End neighborhood is located in the Northwest quadrant. It is bounded by K Street, Rock Creek Park and George Washington University. The name comes fr...
Woodley Park is in the Northwest quadrant and is bordered by the National Zoo, Rock Creek Park, Calvert Street and Cleveland Avenue. Real Estate mogul, Harry ...
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