Admittedly, I do not focus enough east of the river. I was doing a little digging around the Library of Congress archives and came across this gem.
This is an advertisement for homes in Congress Heights, published on May 17th, 1902 in the Washington Times. Read through the whole thing. It’s amazing.
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