Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.
View toward downtown Washington from the Suitland Parkway-MLK Ave overpass, southeast of the marker.
Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: October 7, 2009
Caption: View toward downtown Washington from the Suitland Parkway-MLK Ave overpass, southeast of the marker.
Additional Description: Changes wrought by construction of the parkway (begun in 1944) and subsequent high density housing projects for the poor are said to mark the start of Barry Farm-Hillsdales's decline from its beginnings as a thriving, semi-rural Afro-American community.
Submitted: July 29, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p120006
File Size: 0.248 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.
Copyright © 2005–2024, Some rights reserved.