Last week, we looked at the first public school for African Americans, opened in the Little Ebenezer church. Its explosive growth, fueled not only by the D.C. Emancipation Act but also by the law securing schooling for all children, meant that they soon outgrew their modest beginnings. And so, a new school – and this […]
As reported by District Source and Hill Now, the Hine School Development project can finally move forward after a the D.C. Court of Appeals rejected a request to send development plans for the Hine Junior High School site back to the D.C. Zoning Commission. So at last night’s ANC 6B meeting, the Stanton-Eastbanc team provided an update on their […]
While not on the agenda for last night’s ANC 6B meeting, Mayor Muriel Bowser stopped by to update the ANC and community on her administration’s activities on her first several weeks in office. She also took the opportunity to answer questions from the ANC commissioners and community about Ward 6 issues such as the Hine […]
JDLand shared details on the news steps for the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project. No start date yet but this is sure to be quite the disruption… District Source shared details of the proposed development on the 1300 block of Pennsylvania, SE that would put 10 new residential units above La Lomita. Frozen Tropics reported that […]
I have written multiple times about schools on Capitol Hill, but there’s an important one that I have thus far missed. It’s an important piece of a tour I will be giving in April, as part of their Emancipation Day celebration. The first public school in the District of Columbia opened in 1806, next to the […]