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Visitors to Washington,DC flock to the National Mall,where grand monuments symbolizethe nati on’s highest ideals. This self-guided walking tour is one of a series that invites you to discover what is beyond the monuments:Washington’s historic neighborhoods. Until the s,the neighborhood known as Southwest was Washington’s largest working-class,waterfront neighborhood. Then nearly all of Southwest was razed to create an entirely new city in the nation’s first experiment in urban renewal. Experience both the old and the new Southwest in the company of the first colonial settlers; m i grants and immigrants; fishmongers,domestic workers,laborers, government clerks and congressmen: a ll passen gers on the journ ey from river farms to urban towers.
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