DCNHT: Mount Pleasant Guide

On this self-guided walking tour of Mount Pleasant, historic markers lead you to:

– A pre-Civil War country estate.

– Homes of musicians Jimmy Dean, Bo Diddley and Charlie Waller. – Senators pitcher Walter Johnson's elegant apartment house. – The church where civil rights activist H. Rap Brown spoke in 1967.

– Mount Pleasant's first bodega.

– Graceful mansions.

– The first African American church on 16th Street.

– The path President Teddy Roosevelt took to skinny-dip in Rock Creek Park.

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