DCNHT: Adams Morgan Guidebook

Welcome.

Visitors to Washington, DC flock to the National Mall,where grand monuments symbolize the nation’s highest ideals.This self-guided walking tour is the fifth in a series that invites you to discover what lies beyond the monuments:Washington’s historic neighborhoods. Long appreciated as one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods, the Adams Morgan you’re about to explore is no accident.It is the legacy of elite colonial families,Jewish merchants,liberal activists,revolutionaries, African American government clerks, transportation planners,and entrepreneurs from Africa, Central, and South America. This guide uncovers their footprints.

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