Tag: Rock Creek Park

It looks almost exactly the same today! The photos were taken on November 24th, 1910 ... Happy Thanksgiving! Source: Dig DC

Do you recognize this part of Rock Creek Park? If I'm not mistaken, it's near the entrance to the National Zoo on...

What an amazing photo this is from sometime between the 1880s and 1910s. I can't quite tell the direction of this shot....

Check this out. A much more bucolic and rural looking K St. over Rock Creek in 1907. Source: Library of Congress

Here is an old classified advertisement from The Baltimore Sun, printed on November 12th, 1845. In the ad, you'll see some interesting property for sale,...

Look at this great photo from 1890. It shows a group of people riding their horse and buggies through Rock Creek Park. I don't...

Check out this terrific high resolution photo from 1920. It shows an Oldsmobile just after crossing Boulder Bridge on Beach Drive. Source: Library of Congress

In these 1966 drawings, train cars roll under Connecticut Avenue, but above Rock Creek. These amazing early Metro plans never came to fruition. They depict the Red Line between Dupont Circle and Woodley Park.

Source: Washington Post Six years before Rock Creek Park came to be and about 20 years after the Civil War, there was talk of a...

This is something that would scare the crap out of you. Just imagine walking along a path next to Rock Creek Park, only to...

This is a really cool map from the Washington Times, published on Saturday, May 22nd, 1922. It shows the drivable roadways through Rock Creek...

Does anyone recognize these photos? Take a look and see if you can place these locations in today's Rock Creek Park. This is a...

Here's a cool photo of a car crossing a part of Rock Creek in the 1920s. Source: Library of Congress And here is, what appears to...

We dug up this great photo on the Library of Congress' site. This shows a group of people in Rock Creek Park on July...

This is an awesome find. We dug up a fascinating article in the Washington Post from May 23rd, 1886. This was for...

This is an odd photo from 1924. It's clearly a staged shot of a Native American posing with his bow and arrow in Rock...

Look how many large tracts of land there were in Rock Creek Park, back in the early 20th century. The map is oriented looking...

On Friday, July 3rd, 1902, Teddy Roosevelt went for a hike in Rock Creek Park with General Leonard Wood and his entourage. The President's love...

Ghost Dog went on another walk this past weekend to seek out three more stories for the GoDC community. This time, she passed through...

Last week we posted a detailed topographical map of Rock Creek Park from 1866. There were some great comments on it, including GoDCer Elizabeth's observation...

This is a beautiful topographical map of the area that would become Rock Creek Park. The map was done in 1866 in compliance with...