A Look Back in Time: A View of Georgetown in the 1850s

Published April 17, 2013Updated April 28, 20261 min readby ghostsofdc

This is a great view of what Georgetown looked like in the 1850s.

2 thoughts on “A Look Back in Time: A View of Georgetown in the 1850s”

Ted Coltman

April 17, 2013 at 12:07 pm

Was this view sketched from Camp Hill/Observatory Hill? What are the buildings in the right foreground?
M_B_G

December 18, 2013 at 10:59 am

I included this in my book Foggy Bottom and the West End (paper and iBook). On the succeeding page is the Boschke map which would allow one to determine the vantage point on Observatory Hill.

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