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Fort Lincoln:
Fort Lincoln was built in the summer of 1861 along the District line adjacent to Prince George's County in northeast Washington DC. Situated directly along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the fort served as an outer defense of Washington. It is now part of Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Today Fort Lincoln is a neighborhood bounded by Bladensburg Road, Eastern Avenue, New York Avenue NE, and South Dakota Avenue NE. It is home to the "New Town" development built in the 1960s and 1970s. President Lyndon B. Johnson conceived "New Town" as a planned, racially and economically integrated community to showcase his "Great Society" programs.
Fort Lincoln New Town Corp, a private company, built the New Town apartment buildings and condominiums. The National Park Service built a playground and cultural park area, which interprets the history of the former fort, and the District built an elementary school. Today the residents enjoy a cultural center, an elementary school, a recreation area, and one of the city's few big-box retailers. |