Harvest at Pleasant Plains, ca. 1750

Harvest at Pleasant Plains, ca. 1750 (HM24LC)

Location: Washington, DC 20010
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N 38° 55.78', W 77° 2.581'

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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 series of mills expanded along Rock Creek to serve the surrounding farms. In 1727 James Holmead received a land patent for an area he called Pleasant Plains, which included today's Mount Pleasant. The Holmead family ran its estate through the 1850s, and likely grew corn, wheat, and other produce as tobacco declined in importance.

The Holmeads were slaveowners, as were many other farmers in Maryland and Washington. President Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, DC in 1862, during the Civil War. In the decade following the war, developers converted farmland around Mount Pleasant into one of the first suburbs of downtown Washington.

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Date Added Tuesday, January 16th, 2018 at 7:03am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 322908 N 4310956
Decimal Degrees38.92966667, -77.04301667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 55.78', W 77° 2.581'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 55' 46.8" N, 77° 2' 34.86" W
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Area Code(s)202
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1844 Kenyon St NW, Washington DC 20010, US
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