by Marlene Berlin When we started Forest Hills Connection four years ago, we wrote: What is Forest Hills? In the past, even longtime residents have struggled to answer the question […]
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Forest Hills history: The TV tower that wasn’t
by Ann Kessler Almost 50 years ago, the Forest Hills neighborhood united in stopping what would have the tallest structure in the city: a TV tower on Connecticut Avenue. In […]
Van Ness was home to DC’s first indoor mall
by Ann Kessler I miss the Van Ness Centre Mall. Granted, it only existed for 16 years, but from 1967 on through 1983 it was part of the community and […]
How Cleveland Dennard built a school – and changed Van Ness
by David Jonas Bardin Cleveland Leon Dennard (1929-1992) – a dreamer and a doer – in many ways changed the face of Van Ness. Fifty years ago, President Johnson’s administration […]
Forest Hills history: The Goetzes of Gates Road
by Ann Kessler When you look at area maps, you can see that little 600-foot long Gates Road doesn’t fit into the street grid of Forest Hills. There’s a reason […]
Forest Hills history: The ‘last farmer in Chevy Chase’
by Ann Kessler Conrad F. Springer claimed to be the “last farmer in Chevy Chase” when interviewed for a Washington Post article in November 1937. Mr. Springer’s farm actually wasn’t […]
History: Fernwood Heights was here first, but Forest Hills absorbed it
by Ann Kessler “Forest Hills has taken over older, but smaller, Fernwood Heights.” That’s a sentence I ran across in a May 1937 article in the Washington Post. What and […]
Another school once stood at the site of Murch Elementary
by Ann Kessler One of the first schools to be built in our area of Washington County1 in the 1860s was the old Grant Road School. It has an interesting […]
The first school in Forest Hills, DC opened 150 years ago
by Ann Kessler I would suspect if you were asked about the first public school to be built in Forest Hills, you wouldn’t answer that it was an African American […]
The streetcars of Forest Hills
by Anne Rollins For decades after the federal government moved to the District of Columbia in 1800, the city grew very slowly, with only sparse settlement outside the area designed […]
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