Before the days of Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, the term 'Beltway Bandit' was applied to the nefarious behavior of a common area criminal -- a true bandit if you will. Application of the term...
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 of course very interested in the D.C. public elementary school system....
If you go to Adams Morgan on a regular basis, you should probably know at least the basic history of the neighborhood, which is actually the combination of several older Washington neighborhoods: Kalorama Triangle, Lanier Heights,...
Langley, VA is the headquarters for the CIA. What's the history behind the area's name?...
This was cross-posted on Ghosts of Baltimore. Washington, D.C. Received most of its land, about two-thirds, from the state of Maryland when it was formed in the late 18th century. The rest came from Virginia, and was...
One of our most popular posts ever was this one about the origin of Arlington's name. How about we dig a little deeper into a specific neighborhood in Arlington? As you can see below, Clarendon started as...
Do you know the origin of the name "Federal Triangle"? Did you know that at one point the area was called "Pennsylvania Avenue Triangle"?...
Well, you might not know this, but there really was a Mr. LeDroit ...
Have you ever found yourself sitting at The Raven in the wee hours of a Saturday evening, wondering why it's called Mt. Pleasant? Well, we'll tell you, and then the next time you find yourself debating...
Who was Mr. Woodley, you're probably wondering. Well unlike Mr. Cleveland's eponymous neighborhood one stop past Woodley on the red line, this neighborhood was not named after some guy. It was named after a house, and one that...
We're guessing a good number of you know the answer to this. There's also a good group of you who don't know, are quite curious, but haven't gotten around to Wikipedia-ing this yet. Well, let's save you...
Tysons Corner has a fascinating history going back to the days of William Tyson. ...
If you're a fan of D.C. history, you'll know that MacArthur Blvd. used to be called Conduit Rd. You probably also know that it was named for General Douglas MacArthur, the famous World War II general....
For those of you who do not know this, you'll chuckle at how simple this is. There once was a great suburban Washington estate called Tunlaw, in what is today Wesley Heights -- the home stood at...