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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHE_famine-genocide-in-ukraine_Washington-DC.html
In memory of the millions
of innocent victims
of a man-made famine
in Ukraine engineered and
implemented by Stalin's
totalitarian regimeText in Ukrainian script ...
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J73_fiery-destruction_Washington-DC.html
"[The British] put a slow match to the [Sewall] house ... and those rockets burst until ... they made the rafters fly East and West." — Eslaved African American diarist and eyewitness Michael Shiner.
As the British marched along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYY_sanctuaries_Washington-DC.html
Calvary Episcopal Church, half a block north at 820 Sixth Street, has been a community anchor since 1901. For most of its early years, the congregation, led by founding rector Reverend Franklin I.A. Bennett, met at 11th and G. In 1941 it welcomed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYX_get-behind-the-wheel_Washington-DC.html
Ourisman Chevrolet once occupied almost the entire north side of this block. After two years as a top-performing Chevy salesman on Connecticut Avenue, and with a $2,000 loan from his widowed mother, Benjamin Ourisman opened his own dealership here…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYW_the-fires-of-1968_Washington-DC.html
On Friday, April 5, 1968 the 600 block of H Street went up in flames. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been assassinated a day earlier, and grief-stricken, angry men and women had taken to the streets across the city. Some took part i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYV_the-changing-faces-of-h-street_Washington-DC.html
The handsome church on this corner is the second to occupy this spot. The first was a small brick chapel built by John A. Douglas in 1878 for the new Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after, it was renamed Douglas Memorial Methodist Episco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYU_enterprising-families_Washington-DC.html
The small scale and low rents of H Street's oldest buildings have lured waves of immigrant entrepreneurs since the buildings were new in the 1880s. By 1930, alongside Greek, Italian, Irish, and other immigrant-owned shops, at least 75 Jewish-owned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYT_mediterranean-imports_Washington-DC.html
Maryland Avenue in the 1930s was home to immigrants from around the Mediterranean. Evelyn Kogok Hier grew up at 1328 Maryland Avenue. She remembered her next-door neighbor, the Right Reverend Ayoub (Job) Salloom, hosting after-church gatherings wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYS_the-hub_Washington-DC.html
The starburst intersection of five major roads marks this spot as a transportation hub for the neighborhood and the region.
Shortly after Congress arrived in Washington in 1800, city leaders chose an old farm road to create a private toll turnp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYR_culture-and-commerce_Washington-DC.html
When the Atlas Performing Arts Center opened in 2005, it gave hope to an area still recovering from the destruction following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. But when K-B's Atlas movie house opened here in 1…