Tunnicliff’s Tavern is a popular Hill watering hole that has been a local favorite since the early 1980s. Its name, however, has a much longer history reaching back to before Washington was the capital of the country. From the mid 1790s, during a ten-year period, a man named William Tunnicliff ran taverns that were important […]
During a hearing in 1962 Representative H. R. Gross asked a witness “You have heard that old saying, Mr. Macy, that there is nothing so permanent in Washington as something temporary, have you not?” It was hardly a new sentiment at the time; one reason why the temporary structures built during WWII were made to […]
There has been a lot of interest in the trend of keeping backyard chickens of late, with numerous articles on the subject appearing in papers around the country — and even here on the Hill. There are also websites and a trade magazine devoted to the subject. For many people, it is a reminder of an earlier […]
With the reopening of Eastern Market, it seems only right to look at the pre-history of what is again the center of our neighborhood. Long before Cluss built his masterpiece, there was another market, one which L’Enfant had planned into his earliest drawings of Washington DC: Eastern Branch Market. In 1791, it made sense to […]
On September 28, 1928, 127th Zeppelin took off from its factory in Germany. It was named Graf Zeppelin, in honor of the founder of the airship company, who had died about 10 years earlier. During the next nine years, the Graf Zeppelin travelled over one million miles and visited the US a total of five […]