Posts Tagged ‘DC history’
DC Mythbusting: A Bus By Any Other Name
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
Welcome to another edition of DC Mythbusting. This week we’re looking into the Metrobus system. The rail system is easy enough to understand– it is organized by color, with five lines in total. But there are over 300 bus routes serving the DC area, so the color system wouldn’t [...]
Keep Living in the Past
‘Drawing of proposed National Airport’
courtesy of ‘DC Public Library Commons’
The District has a very cool history, and it’s amazing to think how it has changed over the years. One of the coolest parts of this history is how DC has physically changed since it was planned. We talked a little bit about this [...]
DC Mythbusting: Boundary Stones
‘Takoma 1791 Boundary Stone’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Welcome to another week’s DC Mythbusting. This week we’ll talk about a myth I heard when I first moved to DC– that the city’s boundaries are marked off, every mile or so, with stones. I heard that these stones had been placed long ago when Andrew Ellicott [...]
DC Mythbusting: “Lobbyist” Coined at Willard Hotel
‘WASHINGTON 2-35′
courtesy of ‘chantoozie’
Welcome to another edition of DC Mythbusting! This week we’ll be busting the myth of the term ‘lobbyist’. The legend that I’ve heard countless times in the District is that the term ‘lobbyist’ originated at the Willard Hotel when Ulysses S. Grant was in office (1869-1877). Apparently President Grant would frequent the [...]
