DC -- Brightwood neighborhood:
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- BRIGHT_131109_12.JPG: African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC
Military Road School
1375 Missouri Avenue, NW
The Military Road School opened in 1864 here along what then was Military Road, an artery linking Civil War forts. The School was one of the first to open after Congress authorized public education for Washington's African Americans in 1862. Students were children of free blacks as well as formerly enslaved men and women who settled near Fort Stevens, a source of employment during the war (1861-1865). Others came from upper Northwest neighborhoods and nearby Montgomery County, Maryland. The Military Road School closed with desegregation in 1954, but its handsome "new" brick building, completed in 1911, continues as a venue for social and education programs.
- Wikipedia Description: Brightwood, Washington, D.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brightwood is a neighborhood located in the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C. Brightwood and the rest of Ward 4 are represented in the Council of the District of Columbia by Muriel Bowser.
As with most neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the boundaries of Brightwood are difficult to define. As defined by the Brightwood Community Association, the boundaries are Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Aspen Street to the north, 16th Street and Rock Creek Park to the west, Georgia Avenue to the east, and Kennedy Street to the south. Nearby neighborhoods include Shepherd Park to the north, Takoma to the northeast, Manor Park to the east, and Sixteenth Street Heights to the south.
Much of the retail in the neighborhood is located along Georgia Avenue. Although no Metrorail stations lie within the neighborhood, the Takoma Metrorail station is within walking distance from the northern end of neighborhood. The Fort Totten Metro Station is also within walking distance from other areas of Brightwood. There are several Metrobus routes that serve the community.
Redevelopment of the commercial area along Georgia Avenue is in progress. Condominiums were completed at the corner of Georgia and Missouri Avenues in 2006, and a new restaurant called Meridian on the first floor of the building opened in January 2008; Meridian closed in June 2008. Foulger-Pratt, the company that redeveloped much of downtown Silver Spring, has plans to build a new building with retail and rental apartments at the former site of the Curtis Chevrolet dealership at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Peabody Street. As of April 2008, the design plans have not been finalized; the D.C. Historical Preservation Society has requested that Foulger-Pratt include the car barn into the design rather than replace the structure.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
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