by Ann Kessler A remarkable illustration of the movement of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) physicists into the Forest Hills neighborhood in the 1920s can be found in the 2900 […]
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Forest Hills history: The physicists next door
One of them worked with Edison. One was a good friend of Robert Goddard. And one has a crater named after him on the moon. And they all lived in […]
History: The schools for boys at Connecticut and Upton, part 2
by Ann Kessler Four different schools have occupied at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and and Upton Street NW since 1906. The first was the Army and Navy Preparatory School. […]
History: The schools for boys at Connecticut and Upton, part 1
by Ann Kessler Edmund Burke School, which has occupied the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Upton Street for more than 40 years, wasn’t the first school at that spot. It […]
How Forest Hills Playground Came To Be
The Forest Hills Playground, currently closed for renovation, opened to neighborhood children almost 60 years ago. But the effort to create this play space began many years before that. Ann […]
The Woman Who Built Murch, Deal and Wilson
It’s the last day of school for DCPS public schoolkids. For many in our neighborhood, their first days at Murch, Deal and Wilson schools were possible because of this woman, […]
2013 Flashback: Looking WAY Back
Forest Hills is young by DC standards, but the neighborhood has a fascinating history nonetheless. And we were been fortunate to receive so many wonderful articles about this history in […]
Forest Hills Connection Needs Your Support
by Marlene Berlin Where would you get your neighborhood news without the Forest Hills Connection? Where would you learn the latest on the Saul Centers project on Connecticut Avenue, how […]
Forest Hills’ First School
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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