Tag: 1870s

This amazing find was dug up courtesy of the National Park Service. You're look at a grainy image of Frederick Douglass standing in front...

Many of you know that the Washington Monument sat unfinished for decades, an eye-sore of a stump on what would become the National Mall....

Fascinating drawing of the U.S. Capitol from the 1870s showing proposed modifications to the building. This is the west elevation of the building, the...

Well, you might not know this, but there really was a Mr. LeDroit ... sort of. LeDroit Park was...

Here's a cool bird's-eye view of the Capitol and the rest of Washington from 1872. Source: Library of Congress

This is a great old map, about a decade earlier than this one of Columbia Heights and Mt. Pleasant. Click on it for a...

Check out this terrific 1874 map of Georgetown with the old street names. Source: Dig DC

Here is a map of the Carlin Springs subdivision in Alexandria, now Arlington County. Source: Library of Congress The above map shows the area south of...

This is one of the more interesting personal stories that we've uncovered. For a while now, we've heard stories about President Grant being arrested for...

This is what the Library of Congress could have looked like if Leon Beaver's design from 1873 was selected. Here's a second rendering of the...

This is a colorful story for the lost neighborhood of Swampoodle. We came across the article in The Washington Post, printed on October 20th, 1879. Morris...

Here's an old print from 1873, showing Ulysses Grant's second inauguration, looking down Pennsylvania Ave. Source: Library of Congress

What a cool series of old photos from 1879. We've published so many posts that we can't remember if these went up before, but...

You think the roads are bad today, with all the potholes? I assure you, they were worse in the 1870s. Here's a really cool...