Don’t miss it. On Tuesday evening, September 22, local historian Cindy Janke will present an illustrated Overbeck History Lecture on William Prout, the 18th century owner of the land that today comprises most of the Capitol Hill Historic District, including the Navy Yard, the 8th Street business corridor and Eastern Market.
Historical accounts of the District's founding have tended to focus on Daniel Carroll, who provided the land for the U.S. Capitol, but Janke points out that the largely forgotten Prout played a bigger role than Carroll in the development of the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Janke delivered an outstanding Overbeck lecture three years ago on the Hill’s 19th century breweries and another in 2007 on John Philip Sousa’s years in our neighborhood. A former curator of the Kiplinger Washington Collection, she is a longtime explorer of the city’s past and co-author, with Ruth Ann Overbeck, of a groundbreaking study of Prout. She serves now on the collections committee of the DC Historical Society.
The lecture will be held at 8:00 p.m. at the Naval Lodge Hall at 330 Pennsylvania Avenue S.E.
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