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GoDCers Love Maps: Exploring the History of Swampoodle and Union Station

  • Published November 27, 2012
GoDCers love maps and they love Swampoodle! Learn more about the working-class Irish neighborhood destroyed in the early 1900s to make way for Union Station in DC. See an 1888 Sanborn fire insurance map of Swampoodle here.
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GoDCers love maps … and they love Swampoodle. If you’re unfamiliar with Swampoodle, it was a rough and tumble, working-class Irish neighborhood which was destroyed to make way for Union Station in the early 1900s (stay tuned for another map of the area showing the proposed rail station).

1888 Sanborn fire insurance map of Swampoodle
1888 Sanborn fire insurance map of Swampoodle

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