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A Community Exploring Its Past

The Overbeck Project preserves and publicizes the history of the Capitol Hill community by recording the recollections of its longtime residents, presenting history lectures and promoting historical research.

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Jeffrey Menick

Shortly after Jeff Menick was born in July 1947, his family moved to the corner store at 601 E Street SE, which his father operated. The family lived in quarters behind and above the store.

Ralph Dwan

Ralph Dwan was a Catholic priest working for the Washington archdiocese when he first came to the Hill in the mid-1960s.

Curtis C. Robinson

Curtis “Doc” Robinson served as a Tuskegee Airman in World War II and returned after the war to Washington, DC.

Robert J. Beverly, Sr., and family

Almost every Beverly family story involves their house -- the Big House at 308 Independence Avenue SE, on a lot purchased by their grandmother, daughter of former slaves, in 1886.

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Lecture Series

Woman Suffrage: Picketing at U.S. Capitol, 1918. Harris & Ewing Photograph. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016866204/

Places of Protest: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in the Nation’s Capital

Lecture By :
Elizabeth A. Novara
March 9, 2020
One hundred years ago, in early 1920, suffragists waited in anticipation to see if their tireless work would pay off – would the states ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution securing the right to vote for millions of women?
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The Overbeck Project Notes with Sadness the Passing of James Goode.

Goode was the author of a number of valued and important books on the history and development of the city of Washington, including our Capital Hill neighborhood.
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