The Hill is Home had its ear out this week for initiatives to support the Haitian earthquake relief effort, and found some generous and creative ways Hill’s residents, even its youngest citizens, are raising money and emptying their piggy banks for charities providing help in ravaged Haiti. Watkins Elementary, in the 400 block of 12th Street, […]
Just north of Lincoln Park, where Tennessee and Constitution Avenues intersect with 13th, lies one of Capitol Hill’s most historic schools, Maury Elementary. Maury has been a fixture of the Hill since its construction in 1886 and is one of the best examples of the eight room schoolhouse that was standard in the 1880s and […]
So much of Washington, DC’s history is bound in the inexorable discussion of race, and our schools are no different. As no doubt the vast majority of you know, Washington, DC’s schools were segregated for much of our history; both because our Congressional overlords deemed it so and because, frankly, few white residents felt it […]
In the pantheon of mythical childhood figures, there is one that cannot be praised highly enough in Capitol Hill: Ms. Frances Slaughter. The first time I heard her name, there was an echo of reverence in the voice of the person who said it. As my son kept approaching the right age to join a […]
The next school in our installment came upon it’s name through a somewhat circuitous route. Built in 1879, Peabody Elementary was named to honor George Peabody, an early American financier and noted philanthropist. Peabody made a sizable fortune working with the father of J.P. Morgan, issuing securities and other instruments backing the explosion of railroads […]