Did you know that today’s neighborhood kids flock to the same sledding hills as they did a century ago? And even in the early part of the last century, siblings […]
Lost Forest Hills: The Rose Hill Quarry
by Ann Kessler The first people who lived here left their mark here. Archaeologists believe that the first inhabitants of the Washington, DC area arrived around 13,000 years ago. According […]
Fall pastimes in Forest Hills a century ago: sandlot football and acorn battles
Who was Fred Rhodes? A federal worker whose long and varied resumé included the Manhattan Project and the Nixon administration, and later in life, a Baptist minister. But a century […]
Forest Hills history: Joseph Sanders, inventor and philanthropist
by Ann Kessler The Forest Hills Citizens Association was founded 90 years ago this year by some extraordinary people. One such early resident of Forest Hills was Joseph Sanders, an […]
Oh, to be a kid in the summer… of 1919. Read more Fred Rhodes recollections
Who was Fred Rhodes? A federal worker whose long and varied resumé included the Manhattan Project and the Nixon administration, and later in life, a Baptist minister. But a century ago, […]
Meet Fred Rhodes and read his recollections of life in Forest Hills DC a century ago
by Ann Kessler Some of Fred Burnett Rhodes’ descriptions of springtime in DC sound familiar – the brilliance of the azalea blooms, the minnows in Soapstone Creek. But he’s describing […]
Do these names ring a bell? Help us track down descendants of Forest Hills’ early residents
Ninety years ago in June, a group of neighbors founded the Forest Hills Citizens Association. What we know about a few of them offers glimpses of life in the neighborhood […]
Elvis was here. So was Marilyn Monroe.
by Ann Kessler Forest Hills has seen its share of celebrities, but two of the biggest icons of all time – Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe – passed this way […]
Should Wilson High change its name? Feb. 12 community forum considers the question
DC’s Woodrow Wilson High School stands on the edge of what was a thriving black middle class neighborhood until it was systematically dismantled by the actions of white supremacists including… […]
In the 1950s, Connecticut and Albemarle was a shopping destination
by Ann Kessler In the 1950s, before Washingtonians started traveling to the newly built malls in the suburbs, people shopped locally. Near Forest Hills, for instance, on the east side […]