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April 17, 1939: rain cancels the Senators-Yankees opener, so Clark Griffith and Joe McCarthy trudge out to Arlington to lay a wreath of roses on Abner Doubleday's grave.
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In 1881, an ice jam at Long Bridge flooded 254 acres of DC. The fix created Hains Point. We made a podcast episode about how a mud flat became a park.
🎧 New podcast episode, 9 minutes. Listen at the link.
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In 1966, a Maryland congressman asked the House to kill Wolf Trap to protect a Columbia pavilion that hadn't been built yet. The National Symphony had already turned down the Fairfax farm as too hard to…
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In 1969, students paddled canoes to three rocky islands in the Potomac and camped out to stop an 8-lane freeway bridge. We made a podcast episode about it.
🎧 New podcast episode, 11 minutes. Listen at the link.
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A Lutheran church on Thomas Circle, built as a memorial to the end of slavery, protected by Nation of Islam members while 14th Street burned in April 1968. The pastor who left quietly in 1911 later wrote one of America's bestselling novels.
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In 1978, a Washington Post reporter rented out his house off Foxhall Road. The tenant paid on time, remodeled the basement, and turned out to be the FBI running Abscam.
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In 1941, a man walked into the Toddle House diner at 1971 Calvert Street NW, complained about the coffee, and left with 12 stitches in his wrist. That little brick box is still standing.
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In 1867, an Army engineer scouted four sites to move the White House out of the swampy city, including Meridian Hill and a hilltop estate with views deep into Maryland and Virginia. Where could the President have lived?
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Adams Morgan is named after two elementary schools that sat a block apart in 1955. One was white, one was Black, and their principals decided it was time their neighborhoods met.
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In 1967, Army soldier Allen L. Adams left Ft. Myer for a drink at a downtown DC bar and vanished. Nearly 30 years later, a bulldozer uncovered what was left of him.
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