Reservoir/Reno City

Reservoir/Reno City (HM24AO)

Location: Washington, DC 20016
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 57.041', W 77° 4.651'

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Tenleytown, DC

—Country Village to City Neighborhood —

Fort Reno is located at the highest elevation in D.C. A city water reservoir was constructed in the 1890s to serve the city's growing population. The red brick water tower (pictured here) was built in 1903 to provide water pressure to the immediate Tenleytown area. A stone water tower was constructed in 1929. Reno City was a mostly African-American community, home to emancipated slaves, which was built on the grounds of Fort Reno after the Civil War. By the 1960s, the last remaining homes had been demolished.

Call box drawings by Lena Frumin


This call box is part of Art on Call, a program of Cultural Tourism DC, funded in part by the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, the District Department of Transportation, and Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. Neighborhood Sponsors are the Tenleytown Neighbors Association and Tenleytown Historical Society. A list of call box locations can be found at-

www.tenleytownhistoricalsociety.org
www.tenleytowndc.org
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HM NumberHM24AO
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Placed ByCultural Tourism DC
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018 at 10:02am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 319971 N 4313356
Decimal Degrees38.95068333, -77.07751667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 57.041', W 77° 4.651'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 57' 2.4599999999998" N, 77° 4' 39.06" W
Driving DirectionsGoogle Maps
Area Code(s)202, 703
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling East
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 3950-3984 Chesapeake St NW, Washington DC 20016, US
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