Do you know why we have a neighborhood named after a Caribbean island? Find out how it's related to today's George Washington University too.

This is a map from 1907 showing the area around today’s Union Market and Gallaudet University. Source: Library of Congress

To satisfy your hunger for more Officer Sprinkle, I took a look into where he lived in 1900. At the time, he was 34 years old, had been married to his wife Teresa for 10 years and had been working for the Washington police force for the same amount of time. The Sprinkle family lived […]