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Other History Resources

The Capitol Hill Restoration Society has been fighting to preserve and maintain the neighborhood's historic character since 1955, and its annual House and Garden Tour is one of the highlights of the year.

The community's two newspapers, The Voice of the Hill and The Hill Rag, frequently run features on the neighborhood's history and heritage.

The new City Museum, run by the D.C. Historical Society, is an excellent resource for exploring Washington's neighborhoods. It will also serve as permanent repository for the Overbeck Project's interview tapes an other original materials.

The D.C. Public Library has a large "Washingtoniana" section filled with old photos, maps and other historical resources.

The Washington Navy Yard at the foot of 8th Street S.E. is the U.S. Navy's oldest shore establishment, dating from 1799. Originally a shipbuilding center, then an ordnance plant, it was the biggest employer in our community for about a century and a half.

Naval Lodge #4, which was founded in 1805 by officers and workers at the Navy Yard, has played a major role in the history of Capitol Hill, and its wonderful Egyptian Revival style meeting hall at 330 Pennsylvania Avenue S.E. is the site of all of our Overbeck History Lectures.

The Sewall-Belmont House at the corner of 2nd and Constitution is one of the oldest houses on Capitol Hill and home to the National Woman's Party. Its collection includes thousands of historic photographs, books, papers, furniture and art, much of it relating to Hill history.

Congressional Cemetery, resting place of John Philip Sousa and many other figures from our neighborhood's past, is maintained and interpreted by a very active organization of community volunteers, the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery.

CBFs Anacostia River Initiative - The Anacostia provided the harbors and navigation route that helped make Capitol Hill what it is today, but it's been seriously degraded over the years by agricultural runoff and other pollution. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is working to clean it up.