A canal connecting the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers was a feature of the original L’Enfant plan for Washington. It took a while to build, but then remained in use until after the Civil War, by which time it had turned into an open sewer. The land on which it was built was reused, parts with […]
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Hey, remember how six years ago life kind of ground to a halt and we didn’t emerge from our lairs for like… oh, I dunno, three months? Ah, what a pandemiversary. I remember going out to dinner at El Chalán (RIP, glorious Peruvian food) and walking back because we didn’t know if riding the Metro […]
Hey everyone! Today the weather was so very crazy, I hope none of us gets sick. And just in case you want to dismiss it as, “one of those DC spring things,” you should know that this is a definite outlier! According to meteorologist Andrew Markowitz on Twitter, this was “the most improbably snowstorm EVER” […]
The L’Enfant plan of Washington D.C. contained locations for a number of markets, including one east of the Capitol. It was not, however, located where Eastern Market was, but instead where most people lived back then – and where it was easy to reach from the river. Eastern Branch Market is important historically to Capitol […]