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Georgetown is one of Washington’s oldest neighborhoods, predating the federal city itself. These posts explore its colonial-era streets, Federal rowhouses, working waterfront, and the characters who shaped one of DC’s most enduring communities.

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The Bayou exterior in 1977 with the Whitehurst Freeway overhead at 3135 K Street NW, GeorgetownThe Bayou: 45 Years Under the Whitehurst FreewayUpdated Oct 25EpisodeThe Duo Who Built D.C.’s First Freeway: Archie Alexander, Maurice Repass, and the Whitehurst StoryUpdated Oct 24David Burnes cottage, the farmhouse of one of the original proprietors of Washington, with the Washington Monument behind it, photographed by Frances Benjamin JohnstonWho Owned the Land That Became Washington, DC?Updated Oct 20Episode

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Wisconsin Avenue, NW, south of O Street at "rush hour" (June 30, 1960).Washington DC in the 1960s: Rush Hour on Wisconsin AvenueUpdated Oct 18A D.C. streetcar crosses the Foundry Branch trestle with Georgetown University spires behind, 1948Foundry Branch Trestle: DC’s Last Streetcar BridgeOct 20EpisodeWashington Daily News front page of October 13, 1926, headlined Ace of D.C. Detectives Slain on Wedding Day, with a portrait of Detective Arthur B. ScrivenerArthur Scrivener: Murder or Suicide in a Georgetown Alley, 1926Oct 18The Old Stone House, a small two-story fieldstone house with dormer windows and a tall chimney, on M Street in GeorgetownIs the Old Stone House Haunted? Georgetown’s 1765 SurvivorOct 7Daytime exterior of Nathans bar at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW in Georgetown, with the dark blue NATHANS awning, The Q and A Cafe subtitle, and pedestrians on the brick sidewalkNathans Georgetown: 40 Years at 3150 M Street, and What’s There NowJul 23The Crazy Horse: The Wild Life of 3259 M Street, GeorgetownJul 2
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