- Washingtoniana
Your guide to the region's top events, mixed with some commentary about life, media, gossip and politics in Washington, DC.
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Emily Leaman
In this week’s edition of Washingtoniana—our Thursday feature where we collect your questions about Washington and do some sleuthing to find the answers—we get the facts on the mysterious pillar at Seventh Street and Constitution Avenue, Northwest.
"While waiting at the bus stop at the southwest corner of 7th and Constitution, I’ve often wondered what might be the origins of that (sandstone?) monolith. There’s no sign or any other marker to indicate why it is there. Is it perhaps some remnant of the old B&O railroad station?" - Paul Symborski
Glad you asked, Paul! To find the answer, we put our Googling skills to the test.
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Emily Leaman
It’s back! Our feature Washingtoniana—where we collect your questions about Washington and do some sleuthing to find the answers—has returned. It’ll appear in this space every Thursday. Kicking it off is Claudia Bahar of Potomac, who asks: “How did Adams Morgan get its name?”
Photo by Flickr user rachaelvoorhees Editor’s note: Washingtoniana was a monthly feature that first appeared in The Washingtonian magazine in the 1980s. It was penned by then-senior editor Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney. Subsequently written by other editors, the feature appeared on-and-off in the magazine through the mid-1990s. In our search for Adams Morgan’s history, we tracked down Josh Gibson, the guy who literally wrote a book on the subject; the Adams Morgan resident and local historian coauthored Then & Now: Adams Morgan.
In the early 1900s, he says, the lively nightlife neighborhood we now know as Adams Morgan was known more by its geography than anything else; people simply referred to it as its cross-streets, 18th and Columbia. As a whole, it comprised parts of four other neighborhoods, including Lanier Heights to the northeast and Kalorama to the west.
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