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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E1O_engine-company-no-4_Washington-DC.html
Engine Company No. 4. African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC. This 1885 building originally housed the DC Fire Department's Engine Company No. 7. It eventually became home to Washington's first all-black fire company. The department had i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E1H_alley-life_Washington-DC.html
Alley Life. Midcity at the Crossroads. You are standing at the entrance to Naylor Court. It was built in the 1860s as one of the hundreds of intersecting alleys hidden behind DC houses. Stables, workshops, sheds, and often cheap two-story houses, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DU8_daniel-a-p-murray-residence_Washington-DC.html
Daniel A.P. Murray Residence. African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC. Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1952) was the second African American to hold a professional position at the Library of Congress, achieving the level of assistant l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DTN_mix-of-cultures_Washington-DC.html
Mix of Cultures. Everyday People Columbia Heights Art on Call. Youth from the Latin American Youth Center—Art + Media House used cameras and microphones to explore the changing faces of Columbia Heights' people and places. Collaborating with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DHP_the-place-to-shop_Washington-DC.html
The Place to Shop. Midcity at the Crossroads. When Northern Liberty Market opened on Mount Vernon Square in 1846, small businesses soon followed. By 1900 they catered to everyday needs and formed a bargain district in comparison to downtown's fanc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CJA_history-in-a-house_Washington-DC.html
History in a House. If a house could talk, what tales would it tell? The private residence at 415 M Street, to your left, would tell of hundreds of Shaw residents who came here to play and worship. . . The house at 415 was built in the 1860s fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29DS_on-the-path_Washington-DC.html
The wooden chapel here was completed in 1857 as a mission of the McKendree Methodist Church. Known as Fletcher Chapel, it may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Washington's Anti-Saloon League began meeting at Fletcher Chapel in 1893…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29DR_to-market-to-market_Washington-DC.html
After this neighborhood's original Northern Liberty Market on Mount Vernon Square was razed in 1872, a new Northern Liberty Market was built along Fifth between K and L streets. When owners decided that fresh farm products weren't drawing enough c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2758_remembering-the-village_Washington-DC.html
Two churches on Eighth Street, the Greek Orthodox Saint Sophia's and the Syrian-Greek Orthodox St. George's once anchored a thriving community here known fondly as "the Village." Homes and businesses of European-immigrant and native-born white and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM274W_roots-of-saint-sophia-greek-orthodox-cathedral_Washington-DC.html
In 1904 members of Washington, DC's "Greek Colony" — mostly recently arrived immigrant men — held the city's first Greek Orthodox church service above a warehouse on Indiana Avenue near Seventh Street, NW. In the years that followed, t…