This is an odd photo from 1924. It’s clearly a staged shot of a Native American posing with his bow and arrow in Rock Creek Park.
Source: Library of Congress
This is an odd photo from 1924. It’s clearly a staged shot of a Native American posing with his bow and arrow in Rock Creek Park.
Source: Library of Congress
If you've lived in D.C. for a while, you'll remember the good old days when the W Hotel was actually Hotel Washington, the historic and storied hotel near the White House. I remember having quite a few pleasant lunches on the roof, with a spectacular view of the Washington Monument and the President's house.
I came across a great advertisement for plots in Columbia Heights. It dates back from July 20th, 1902. A few obvious differences that stick out:
Check out this great old photograph from 1907. It shows the North Portico of the White House after a winter snow on February 18th, 1907.
The opium den post of last week was the first foray into old Chinatown research, but I’ve uncovered a gold mine of fascinating local history.
Arthur G. Barkley was an unemployed bread truck driver from Phoenix hijacked a Washington-bound TWA jet, demanding $100 million in ransom. He was distraught from
We had no idea, but the alternate, and strongly pushed location for the Central Intelligence Agency‘s new headquarters was the Winkler Tract in Alexandria, just
With the ridiculous rise in cost of living here in DC, maybe we should go back to the time of boarding houses. We came across
1912 map of rural mail delivery routes in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Faithful and extremely patient GoDCer Jeff requests some time ago that we do a piece on the Northumberland, just north of U St. Our apologies
We have seriously slowed down our posts because Ghost Baby is growing up, and there’s also Ghost Baby #2. So Mrs. Ghost and I are
Look how many large tracts of land there were in Rock Creek Park, back in the early 20th century. The map is oriented looking west.
World War I photo of military camp near Fort Totten.
