FROM has autocomplete. TO has autocomplete. Nearby Bus Lines. Epilogue: The Green Line was completed in phases over the next 10 years. The last five stations between Anacostia and Branch Avenue opened for business January 13, View the discussion thread.
The Green Line Metro faced 20 years of disputes and problems before trains finally started running in City Life. Last Updated:. December 17, As early as BCE, Native Americans used it to send hunting and fishing parties to the valley below. By the late s, the hill was home to a plantation that was also the site of a grand mansion. During the Civil War, it served as a union encampment. The D. Until its closure in , Landover Mall was the heart and soul of Landover, Maryland.
Perhaps its biggest claim to fame is that it was one of the last locations to have a Hot Shoppes Junior, a famous but now practically defunct D. And for this last or first stop on the reimagined Blue Line: the old Capital Centre, a popular concert venue and the former home of the Capitals, Bullets, and Hoyas.
After closing in , however, the Capital Centre was imploded and the site is now occupied by a Foot Locker and a Panda Express. Unlike most historical buildings, this house is famous because it was destroyed. However, it was after the house was destroyed that things got interesting. It was in perfectly good condition, so it was a mystery as to why anyone would want to demolish it.
The running theory is that it was destroyed expressly for the purpose of not becoming a historic landmark. The logic was, if it was designated as historically significant, it would stay there forever and prohibit any further development of the land.
McPherson with a Metro stop, but consider two things. Mary McLeod Bethune, however, is a different story. Today, the site houses archives featuring materials relating to the history of African American women. If you think of Bethesda as a suburban paradise, you have to thank the neighborhood that started it all. The trolley eventually extended out to Rockville and closed in , but the neighborhood has remained.
Wow, a station named after its positioning in the Metro system. During the lates, downtown was a dump. However, there was one neighborhood that was particularly awful. Murder Bay was known for its brothels, gambling, and crime. It was so dangerous that even the police tried to stay away from the area. The level of crime and violence was almost cartoonish. Today, some people might use this station to visit the nearby Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens.
Homesick, Shaw had a number of wild waterlilies from his home state of Maine planted on the land. Shaw Lily Ponds. She advocated for the survival of the gardens and, in , Congress authorized payment to add the gardens to the N. National Harmony was open to all races, though most of the people interred there were African American. This transfer, though, was not unique. In , National Harmony accepted the graves of 37, people from Columbia Harmony Center, another defunct African-American cemetery.
Additionally it was the first desegregated public building in all of Washington. Appropriately, the building now houses the Historical Society of Washington and it is undergoing a renovation to make room for a new co-tenant. And back in the early s, they really liked beer. The Washington Brewery, the first in D. Cornelius Coningham. It operated out of Foggy Bottom until when it moved to the Navy Yard at the current site of Yards park and remained there until it closed in Its existence sparked a brewery mania in the District; at one point, brewers were the second-largest employer in the city, after the federal government.
Washingtonians also liked brewing because it made potentially dangerous water potable. Perhaps an excuse to drink some more beers, but given the state of the city canal , maybe not.
Prohibition put an end to D. Specifically, it focuses on issues surrounding Anacostia and the African American history of Southeast. Though its focus is quite local, the site is actually part of the Smithsonian Institution. In fact, it is the only Smithsonian museum focused on the local community and is the home to artifacts from figures like Mary Church Terrell, Anna Julia Cooper, and Marian Anderson.
With what can be best described as humble beginnings, this neighborhood is named after a traffic circle. After numerous traffic jams and car accidents, the City decided to destroy the circle in Unfortunately, the disappearance of the circle led to a near disappearance of the neighborhood. It was often lumped in with Shaw, mistaken for Eckington, and had no identity of its own.
Many of its residents abandoned the neighborhood too; while Truxton Circle had a population of over 8, in , by there were only 3, residents. Depending on how adventurous you were, the land that is now the Pentagon was either the place to be or the place to stay away from in the mid s.
As its name suggests, Pentagon City is a neighborhood that is easily commutable to the Pentagon. For many black families, this community was their first opportunity to own homes and establish a community of their own. However, they were vastly underserved by the county, which failed to provide them with running water, a nearby school, or a fire station. When building the Pentagon, the government needed a space to accommodate the vast number of commuters, and decided Queen City would be a perfect location.
So, in the community was razed, and its citizens — many of whom had supported the war effort — were forced to relocate. While the architecture may be less impressive than the one in London, an important landmark close to this station is Congressional Cemetery. It was at NHS where Henson took his first class in puppeteering and discovered his love for it.
The school now honors the original Muppeteer with The Jim Henson Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, encouraging high school students that playing with puppets may not be so lame after all. Now this is a neighborhood worth celebrating.
The land was originally purchased in by Joseph Gales Jr. He built a two-story house on the property in that served as a Union hospital during the Civil War. In , George Truesdell bought Eckington, subdivided it, and built houses. Truesdell was very forward thinking; his houses were equipped with steam heat and running water that could be both hot and cold. In , he put President Benjamin Harrison to shame by equipping Eckingtonians with electricity a full two years before it was installed in the White House.
However, the tavern was not necessarily the safest place to speak out. The tavern keeper was a staunch loyalist and, one night, tried to murder George Washington. Before becoming D. It was supposedly around this time that the first weeping willow in America was planted at Abingdon. During the Civil War, the property was abandoned when its then owners, the Hunter family, fled south. Today, the ruins of Abingdon are open to the public in a little park behind the airport.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Rosslyn was notorious for murders, robberies, and suicides. As a result, these men would bring armed guards along to protect them and their money. I slept through my stop! Sadly, the station was never rebuilt. Unfortunately, in the fighting came to Falkland when Confederate forces occupied and razed it right before, you guessed it, the Battle of Fort Stevens.
Like several of the other historical station names we are proposing, this one won't do a lot to attract tourists, but it's accurate nonetheless. Welcome to the most historic stop on the reimagined Green line! At least in terms of oldest historical reference. The land which is now mostly Oxon Run National Parkway was once part of the home of the Nacotchtank tribe, the largest of the American Indian tribes in the 17th century. The Nacotchtank used the surrounding wilderness to hunt wild game and grow corn, squash, beans, and potatoes.
Their position at the confluence of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers made the area an epicenter for travel and trade, and the Nacotchtank thrived until European explorers came and brought disease that devastated the tribe. By , nearly all the Nacotchtank were gone. The smoke condition was caused by an "electrical arcing accident" on the third rail, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The incident prompts the Federal Transit Administration to begin work on a report identifying Metrorail safety issues. June 17, - The FTA releases its report, which identifies numerous hazards throughout the Metrorail system.
The problems include an understaffed control center, employees using personal cellphones while on duty and a poor radio communications network. March 14, - An electrical fire in a Metro tunnel causes major delays on the Orange, Silver and Blue lines. March , - The entire Metrorail system is shut down for safety inspections.
The closure lasts from midnight on March 16 until 5 a. May 3, - The National Transportation and Safety Board releases its report on the fatal Metrorail accident in January, outlining safety issues and infrastructure problems in the Metrorail system.
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