DCNHT: Georgia Avenue Guide

– The route President Lincoln once rode to reach his summer cottage. – Howard University and its luminaries. – The venues where young Duke Ellington and Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown got their starts. – The site of Griffith Stadium, the one-time home of the Washington Grays, the Washington Senators, and the Washington Redskins. – Novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston’s rooming house. – The site of an early German/Irish immigrant neighborhood where cows, pigs, and sheep ran free. On this self-guided walking tour of Georgia Ave./ Pleasant Plains, historical markers lead you to:

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