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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: March 15, 2009
Caption: Mt. Pleasant Heritage Trail - Fashionable 16th Street Marker (Reverse)
Additional Description: Tucked in to a bend in Rock Creek Park on the breezy heights above central Washington was one of the city's earliest suburban developments. It began as a village of government clerks mainly from New England, and stretched from 17th Street east to Seventh Street. Later it attracted prominent citizens to its site along fashionable 16th Street, and eventually yielded the area east of 16th Street to Columbia Heights. But that's only on the map. Mount Pleasant's boundaries depend on who you are and where you came from.
The arrival of the streetcar transformed the village into an urban enclave. Working people and newcomers to Washington began to call Mount Pleasant home in the mid-1900s. Its varied citizenry earned it the nickname "little U.N." By the 1970s Mt. Pleasant and Adams Morgan were recognized as the heart of the Latino immigrant community.
Mount Pleasant activists have often been on the cutting edge of important civic issues, and artists and musicians have been part of its daily life. While the neigborhood has changed with the city, some things remain constant. Children consider the National Zoo and Rock Creek Park their personal playgrounds, and residents shop and greet each other on Mount Pleasant Street. Colonial revival mansions, early apartment buildings, and rowhouses remain remarkably intact. A stroll along the 17 signs of Village in the City: Mount Pleasant Heritage Trail will introduce you to it all. Welcome.
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Submitted: March 17, 2009, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p56316
File Size: 1.410 Megabytes

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