James Fisher Tells His Family’s Amazing Story
Every so often there is a story told, be it fact or fiction, that amazes and inspires. This is one such fact-based story about a unique man named Captain George …
Archives for April 2020
National Park Service’s Interpretive Display on George Pointer
The Great Falls Park, Va., Visitors Center tells the story of George Pointer, compelling because of its focus on a Black man who held an important position in the 18th …
Slide Presentation of Project For Citizens’ Association
HCCDC’s Tim Hannapel presented this slide show to the Chevy Chase Citizens’ Association on Nov. 19, 2019, which has endorsed the plan to change the name of Lafayette Park to …
The Battle of Fort Reno: Washington City Paper Article on How a Black Community was Pushed Out
This article by Neil Flanagan in the Washington City Paper, published Nov. 2, 2017, tells the story about how neighbors and developers used a plan for a park to push …
“You Should Know About George Pointer,” an article in Washington City Paper
Read the Washington City Paper’s July 2018 story about George Pointer’s descendants’ efforts to save the remains of his stone cottage near Lock 6 on the C&O Canal, by Neil …
Lafayette Students Launch Letter-Writing Campaign
April 2020 About 250 fourth and fifth graders at Lafayette Elementary School sat listening patiently to a story that many of them couldn’t fathom. They learned that just outside their …
Vera Rubin Gets Her Telescope!
Former Chevy Chase resident, the late Vera Rubin, passed over for a Nobel Price in physics for her contributions in identifying dark matter, finally gets an observatory named in her honor.
Ward 3 Heritage Guide Now Available
An exacting accounting of the historical events and places in DC’s Ward 3 is covered in a newly released publication by the D.C. Office of Historic Preservation. The guide, available …
Proposed Historic District for Chevy Chase DC (2004-2008)
Following a controversial proposal to build a duplex building in a neighborhood zoned for single family homes (see The Battle of 38th St) HCCDC undertook an effort to mount a …
Washington Post Honors Mae Scanlan
A photographer and poet who was dubbed “one of the wittiest poets ever born.”
History of Chevy Chase DC
Touted as the “best suburb of the National Capital” by the Washington Post, Chevy Chase DC is exemplary of an early-twentieth-century residential suburb built along the electric streetcar route in …
Highwood Estate: All That’s Left is the Gatepost
On Stephenson Place, halfway between Broad Branch Road and 33rd Street NW, is the second highest elevation in the District after Fort Reno. On this spot, amid the cows and cornfields and patches of tall oaks, Gen. Henry Clark Corbin built his retirement home in 1907. He and his socialite wife Edythe Patten Corbin called it “Highwood.”