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Glen Echo MD

The Consequences of the Glen Echo Speed Limit: A Letter from a GoDCer

January 29, 2025December 13, 2013 by ghostsofdc
Town Marshall, Charles Collins, ticketing a car along Conduit Road (MacArthur Boulevard). Note the 12MPH limit. ca. 1907

Read a letter from a GoDCer about the amusing consequences of the six-mile-per-hour speed limit in Glen Echo, Maryland in 1907. The story even precipitated an international incident!

Categories From GoDCers Tags 1900s, Glen Echo MD 3 Comments

Glen Echo Speed Limit in 1905: Six Miles an Hour!

January 4, 2023August 28, 2013 by ghostsofdc

Can you believe that the speed limit in Glen Echo was six miles an hour back in 1905?

Categories From the Crazy Vault Tags 1900s, Glen Echo MD
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