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How you know folks who say they are from Georgetown are really not from Georgetown. It is Dumbar not Dumbar Street. Beall (pronounced BELL) was wounded in the battle of DUNBAR (Scotland) and he was given a land grant (which is now Georgetown) and he named his home DUNBAR! Dunbar House, Dunbarton Oaks! Dumbar was used later not as a complement for the many Scottish and Irish labors who worked and lived here and they were called DUMBARTONSHIRES (and it was not a complement)! Prove me wrong! !
Yarrow Mamout may be Georgetown's most famous historic Black resident. Originally from the West African country of Guinea and literate in Arabic, Mamout was enslaved and brought to the US at the age of 16. He later moved to Georgetown as a free man and bought a house just around the block from Q Street and Dumbarton House - at 3324 Dent Place NW (his house no longer stands).
In 1819, famed portrait painter Charles Willson Peale spent two days painting and talking with Mamout. As Peale noted, Yarrow was “comfortable in his Situation having Bank stock and [he] lives in his own house.” This was one of two paintings known to have been made of Marmout. Peale’s hangs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the other, by James Alexander Simpson, is on display at the Peabody Room - Georgetown Neighborhood Library. Learn more about Mamout by reading the WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio and Washington Post articles at linktr.ee/dumbartonhouse.
My Great Great Great Grandfather who with his wife and young son Henry left Antigua where he was a laborer on a sugar plantation and made his way to America in 1846… on to Georgetown… and the rest is history!
Ad from Georgetown College Journal Review Vol. 26, 1897
Valentine's Day -
Our Great Grandfather runs away and elopes with one of the workers in the Pie Plant here in D.C. my Grandmother Ethel Stewart Copperthite Kuwell. All was set right and a proper wedding was done at St. John's Church Georgetown, with Reverend Buck presiding! (My Great Grandmother has her hand on my shoulder in the picture far right)!
1874 MAP OF GEORGETOWN
Dunbarton street not dumbarton!
Greetings from Bloomsday in Melbourne, Australia. Thought you might be interested to know about what we're doing for Bloomsday. We're doing 18 short films, one for each episode, and you can see them live on Facebook on Bloomsday here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bloomsday2020
Aqueduct Bridge. The day the Free Bridge Opened (the bridge build over Aqueduct Bridge). Our Pie Wagon headed over to Virginia to deliver pies to the soldiers at Ft. Camp Algers in 1898. The same view. And the ruins of what now is called Aqueduct Bridge and the current Key Bridge.
Besides, as Peabody Room - Georgetown Neighborhood Library’s Jerry McCoy said in his Census Day video, don’t you want researchers to be able to find you in 2092, when the results of the 2020 Census are released?
Saturday, April 11 at 1pm in the Peabody Room - Georgetown Neighborhood Library:Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist, will discuss how the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 2020 tells a story--and counts more than ever. This program is free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 11 at 1pm in the Peabody Room - Georgetown Neighborhood Library:Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist, will discuss how the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 2020 tells a story--and counts more than ever. This program is free and open to the public.