Daily Updates from HillRag
Tag: history
Celebrate 50 Years of Peterbug Academy With Documentary
The Peterbug Shoe Academy (502 13th/PETERBUG MATTHEWS WAY SE, 1320 E St SE) will celebrate a milestone this year commemorating their 50-year presence on...
Elmore-Friendship Court Honors Family and Friendships
When Linda Elmore stands in the alley her family has called home since 1956, she does not see the paved courtyard or the fresh...
The Overbeck Project Chronicles Capitol Hill Business Improvement District
Crack. Crime. Trash. In the 1990s, Capitol Hill’s streets too often bore the scars of social ills, driving visitors and investors away. Few people...
Major General Macomb To Be Reinterred at Congressional Saturday
A 19th-century Major General of the US Army will be reburied at Congressional Cemetery (1801 E St. SE) on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 11...
Studying History on the Rooftop
I have always been a student of history. I was born in Capitol Hill, (on C St., between 2nd and 3rd St. SE, behind...
100th Anniversary of the DC FEMS Run of the Horses
Hundreds of people lined street between William H. Rumsey Aquatic Center and Lincoln Park as DC Fire Emergency Medical Services (DC FEMS) marked 100...
Eric Johnson’s Urban Landscapes
Capitol Hill is home to one of the Washington area’s outstanding photographers, Eric Johnson. Working in black and white, he photographs buildings we all...
Cheer On DC FEMS Last Run of the Horses
On June 15 at 1 p.m., the DC Fire and EMS Department, in partnership with the Friendship Fire Association and the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services...
Lecture: An 80-Year Struggle to Build the DC Armory
How the vacant land between East Capitol Street and Independence Avenue west of the Anacostia River became a center of civic and military activity...
Five Things to Know About Maintaining A Hill Home
One of the great things about buying a home on the Hill is that most of them are more than 100 years old. Each...
