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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFVG_college-hill_Washington-DC.html
Wayland Seminary opened in Foggy Bottom just after the Civil War to train formerly enslaved people and others as "preachers and teachers for the South" and as missionaries to evangelize Africa. In 1875 it moved here, later merging with Richmond T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFNP_francis-l-cardozo-high-school_Washington-DC.html
Organized September 1928 at M Street and New York Avenue
Moved February 19, 1933to Ninth Street and RhodeIsland Avenue, N.W.
Moved August 1950 to Thirteenthand Clifton Street, N.W.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFMK_on-the-heights_Washington-DC.html
In the days of legally segregated public education (1862-1954), this school building was Central High, the gem of the School Board's white division. But by 1949, it had few students, as the post-World War II suburban housing boom had drawn whites …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFMG_justice-vs-injustice_Washington-DC.html
These elegant 13th Street Houses were constructed when racial separation was legal and widely accepted. In 1910 the deeds for many houses across 13th Street had covenants banning "any negro or colored persons." Those on this side generally did not…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDEA_bens-chili-bowl-minnehaha-theater_Washington-DC.html
Ben's Chili Bowl, founded in 1958 by Ben and Virginia Ali, is one of the oldest continuous businesses on U Street. It is also one of the few to survive both the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the years of the disruptive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBEN_washington-meridian_Washington-DC.html
The stone marking the Washington Meridian was formerly located 52 feet, nine inches west of this tablet which was presented by the Army and Navy Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBAX_lanier-place_Washington-DC.html
Banker Archibald McLachlan and Smithsonian Institution naturalist George Brown Goode developed Lanier Heights in the early 1890s. Goode laid out streets and encouraged Smithsonian colleagues to purchase lots. McLachlan built the elegant Ontario Ap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB88_you-had-to-wear-a-tie_Washington-DC.html
You are standing on Washington's historic Black Broadway-the heart of African American life in Washington, D.C. from about 1900 to the 1950s. Duke Ellington, its most famous native son, grew up, was inspired, trained, and played his first music he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB7Q_the-latino-community_Washington-DC.html
This is the heart of Washington's Latino community. Once centered here and in nearby Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights, the community now extends throughout the region.
As early as the 1910s, the Mexican, Ecuadoran, Cuban, and Spanish embassi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB70_fashionable-16th-street_Washington-DC.html
Today's 16th Street from the White House to Silver Spring, Maryland is one of the city's key gateways. But through the 1890s it jogged left where Mt. Pleasant Street runs today and then dead-ended at the edge of today's Rock Creek Park.
After d…