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Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom got its evocative name from the industrial fumes that once rose from the gas works and breweries along the Potomac. Today it is home to the State Department, George Washington University, and the Kennedy Center, but these posts dig into the neighborhood’s earlier life as a working-class industrial district that bore almost no resemblance to its current form.

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this is a whipThree Women, Three Horse Whips, and One Unfortunate Rent-a-Cop in Foggy Bottom: An 1894 GoDC TaleJan 24, 2013this is a brickThe South Washington Toughs: The Foggy Bottom Gang of 1896Jan 23, 2013boy on the steps to the Octagon House in 1921Is the Octagon House Haunted? DC’s Most Famous Ghost StoryOct 31, 2012Snow's CourtSnow’s Court in Foggy Bottom: Alley Dwellings and GentrificationJun 25, 2012RMS Titanic departing Southampton, April 10, 1912President Taft Lost His Best Friend on the TitanicApr 10, 2012
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