The array of railroad lines “united” at Union Station can be seen on the arrival board, 1948.
helped build the Capitol and the White House. e settlement was known as Swampoodle, thanks to the unruly Tiber Creek and its marshes, located between what are now North Capitol and First Streets, NE. Later Swampoodle residents included Italian immigrant stone carvers and masons whose hands cra ed the Library of Con- gress, Union Station, and the National Cathedral.
Photographed around 1915 were Annie O’Neill Garner, daughter of Irish immigrants, with husband George and their nine children, all of 9 K St., NW, in Swampoodle.
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