Here are some historic Rosedale neighborhood maps excerpted from larger historical maps retrieved from the David Rumsey Cartograghpy Associates Map Collection.
The site has a fantastic base and overlay city map and GIS browser, check it out.
Rosedale Neighborhood, circa 1862
Rosedale Neighborhood, circa 1887
Rosedale Neighborhood, circa 1897
Rosedale Neighborhood, circa 1909
2 comments:
this is fascinating, ken. so the safeway is built on top of a cemetary?
Rick- Apparently, many of the smaller DC cemeteries were moved to larger cemeteries as the city grew. So (hopefully) all the graves were moved before they built the plaza!
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