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).