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
With Christmas almost upon us, it seems to behoove me to go to reruns rather than trying to find new information to post. And so, I will repeat a column that argues for the renaming of one of the more minor rooms at the Old Naval Hospital after one Lewis Dublois.
For the last two weeks, we have been looking at what it meant to travel in the early days of our city. Today, we return to the second half of our 1802 trip from New York City to Washington: The 139 miles from Philadelphia to Georgetown. Once again, our guides are Joshua John Moore and […]
Last week, I introduced the “Traveller’s Directory, or a Pocket Companion Shewing the Course of the Main Road From Philadelphia to New York and From Philadelphia to Washington with Descriptions of the Places Through Which It Passes, and the Intersections of the Cross Roads,” and promised to look more closely at the route described therein. […]
Today, getting to Washington DC is easy – the most difficult task is to decide which of the many modes of transport you will use to get here. And unless you get stuck in traffic, finding a route in is as easy as turning on Google maps. Obviously, it was not always thus, particularly in […]
The 1822 city directory of Washington DC, the city’s first, lists a number of people as either living near, or working at, the “Bank of Washington.” Today, no such establishment exists any more. In its day it was one of the more important banks on Capitol Hill, and, in fact, the oldest in all the […]