Robert Pohl worked for many years as a computer programmer but recovered from that and became a full time stay-at-home dad. With his son now in school, he has expanded his horizons and become a self-taught historian. He has written books about his house as well as Emancipation in the District of Columbia. You can reach Robert at Robert[at]thehillishome.com
Last week, we looked at the strange shape of L’Enfant’s original Washington City, and how a spring located there was responsible. Today, we’ll look at some of the people who owned the land in the early years of the city. After the original owners, the Gibsons, had moved on, the next owner of the spring […]
If you look at an old map of D.C., one that still has the city of Washington within its original boundaries, there is a strange notch to be seen at its northeast corner. Instead of Boundary Road (today’s Florida Avenue) continuing gracefully southeast into the Anacostia, it suddenly dips south along 15th Street before turning […]
One of the dangers of researching a topic for one of my columns is that it will turn out that there is not enough information to warrant writing it up, or that it does not, in fact, have any relation to the Hill, even such a tenuous one as did last week’s. In either of […]
I will admit that this post is, a) late (it should have run before Hallowe’en), b) off-target (it describes a site well outside of pretty much any definition of Capitol Hill), and c) sadly sparse in detail. Nonetheless, the very subject makes it worthy of a post, and –hopefully –of your time reading it. The […]
This piece is for you who are still undecided in the upcoming election. The rest of you – particularly those who have voted already – can go outside and play. For the rest of you, go get your DCBOEE guide that you got the other day, the one you laughed at for sporting an upside-down […]