Prince George’s County sits immediately east of Washington and has been deeply intertwined with the city’s history since the colonial era. From the Capital Centre arena that drew Washingtonians across the border for concerts and Redskins games to the suburban development that reshaped the county in the postwar decades, GoDC covers the parts of PG County that are inseparable from the DC story.
In the summer of 1929, the residents of East Riverdale, Maryland experienced an epic monkey rampage unlike anything they had seen before. Read on to find out how an angry monkey with a taste of freedom caused chaos and fear in the small town.
Eastern Market opened on Capitol Hill in 1873. Capitol Hill refused when the city proposed replacing it with a suburban grocery.
The original Beltway Bandits were an actual crime gang. Plus: how I-495 was built, how it got its name, and why “inside the Beltway” means what it means.
