When construction in Rock Creek Park threatened to collide with two Black cemeteries, including the final resting place of a mutual aid group formed by freed Black women, Lisa Fager sprung into action.
Evidence is growing that a pre-Civil War African American burial ground is buried beneath a historic street full of million-dollar townhouses. But that’s just one theory.
They believe the site, where a storage facility is currently being built, sits atop a burial ground and mass grave for formerly enslaved African people known as the Moses African Cemetery.
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It wouldn’t have been his choice of locations, however.
The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two brothers suspected of carrying out the bombings at the Boston Marathon last month, was buried in a cemetery in Doswell, Va. this week
Oh, you better believe DCist is still on the case of the mysterious noise which woke the District this morning. (We’ve got stick-to-itiveness, what can I say.) Tamika Wright, a spokesperson at Fort Myer, tells DCist that the cannon blasts “weren’t coming from” the base as we previously suspected, but instead were being fired at Arlington Cemetery as part of an installation. So we dialed up Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson Steve Satkowski, who tells DCist that there was indeed some blasts being fired at the Cemetery this morning.
Comments time! Thanks for the good ones, and keep them coming. While you’re at it, are you sick of your cute panda avatar? Why not change it? Last week’s comment of the week is IHateParis on getting a refund for long Metro delays: I complained to Metro once when my train was offloaded at Arlington Cemetery (back a few months ago when there were all those rail fires) and we were all left to…
Via WMATA:The Pentagon Metrorail station was closed at 2:42 p.m. this afternoon to allow officials to investigate a report of a suspicious package at the station. Trains are not passing through the station. Instead, Blue and Yellow Line stations are turning back at the stations on each side of the Pentagon Metrorail station–at Pentagon City Metrorail station and Arlington Cemetery Metrorail station. Officials have requested shuttle buses at those stations to move customers around the…
It looks like DCJeff has been a-wanderin’, shooting the streets of D.C. and leaving us with a bounty of gorgeous images in DCist’s Flickr pool. This sepia-toned image of a dilapidated building, located near a cemetery downtown, reveals subtle textures in the bricks and windows that we find mesmerizing. EXIF….
