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Glover Park History

Historical Sketches of Glover Park, Upper Georgetown, and Georgetown Heights by Carlton Fletcher

  • Neighborhood
    • Neighborhood Histories
    • Neighborhood Images
    • Family Album
    • Oral History and Reminiscences
    • Residential Development Before 1926
    • Residential Development Since 1926
    • Investors & Developers
  • Population
    • Settlement
    • Kinds of Work
    • Settlers
    • Slavery
  • Geography
    • Maps, Places & Features
    • Streets
  • Estates & Farms
    • Alliance Farm
    • Burleith
    • Cedars
    • Clifton
    • Greenwood
    • Hillandale
    • Mount Alto
    • Normanstone
    • North View
    • Tunlaw Farm
    • Weston
  • Institutions
    • Former Institutions
    • Present Institutions
  • Cemeteries
    • Burial Grounds of Georgetown
    • Holy Rood Cemetery
    • Buried in Holy Rood
  • Civil War
    • The Civil War on Georgetown Heights
    • Local People in the Civil War
  • Appendix
  • Neighborhood
    • Neighborhood Histories
    • Neighborhood Images
    • Family Album
    • Oral History and Reminiscences
    • Residential Development Before 1926
    • Residential Development Since 1926
    • Investors & Developers
  • Population
    • Settlement
    • Kinds of Work
    • Settlers
    • Slavery
  • Geography
    • Maps, Places & Features
    • Streets
  • Estates & Farms
    • Alliance Farm
    • Burleith
    • Cedars
    • Clifton
    • Greenwood
    • Hillandale
    • Mount Alto
    • Normanstone
    • North View
    • Tunlaw Farm
    • Weston
  • Institutions
    • Former Institutions
    • Present Institutions
  • Cemeteries
    • Burial Grounds of Georgetown
    • Holy Rood Cemetery
    • Buried in Holy Rood
  • Civil War
    • The Civil War on Georgetown Heights
    • Local People in the Civil War
  • Appendix
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Neighborhood

Reminiscences, photographs, Glover Park, Washington DC, Georgetown D.C., Georgetown Heights, Upper Georgetown

A Brief History of Glover Park

The National Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children, at Burleith, 1864. The Home was a response to the crisis of orphaned refugee slaves in Washington, and was managed by committees of Northern women. It was established in the confiscated house of a Treasury Department official who had left Washington to serve in the Confederate government.
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Paul Friday: Memories of Snow on W Street & “Suicide Hill”

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Georgetown Heights

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Kids on A Fire Engine

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The Calvert Pastry Shop

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The Whalen Family

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The Calvert Theater

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“Doc” Eisenberg, of Plain Old Pearson’s

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The Lang Family

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Cub Scouts, 1950

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Tunlaw Heights Hikers

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Stoddert Field House, 1958

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Glover Park, 1994

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Early Days at Guy Mason

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Aerial Photography

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Jean Snowden

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Glover Park Archaeological Museum

Bottle, Rock Creek Ginger Ale, Company, Washington D.C. (embossed “4/52”).
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Georgetown and Glover Park

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Glover Park, As Advertised

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Restrictive Covenants

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Apartments

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Carillon House

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Michael B. Inscoe

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Aubrey Reginald Cannon, 1939

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Questions and corrections may be directed to moc.yrotsihkraprevolg@notlrac
The citation and acknowledgement of my research is greatly appreciated.
The support of the Advisory Neighborhood Council (3B) is gratefully acknowledged.

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