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).
Just happened on this while searching for something else, so thought I would add to your Union Station info.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1903-10-04/ed-1/seq-28/
it’s a shame you can’t get the google map to display at the same scale as the sanborn
The local baseball team (1886-88) was playing ball just off the edge of this map.