Greater U Street

Name: Greater U Street
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ISBN: 9780738514239

ISBN-10: 0738514233

ISBN-13: 9780738514239

Edition: 2002

Authors: Paul K. Williams

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On the edge of the 1792 original city plan by designer Pierre L'Enfant lies the Greater U Street neighborhood. For nearly 70 years before the Civil War, orchards and grazing land covered the area. When Camp Campbell was settled during the war where Sixth and U Streets now lie, thousands of fighting soldiers and then freed men and women flocked to the area. The fighting ceased, and many people remained to construct small wood frame homes, churches, and businesses that eventually gave way to the elegant rows of substantial brick townhomes lining the surrounding street today. The rise of racial segregation in the early 1900s cultivated the Greater U Street area into a "city within a city" for…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 5/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English