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Out of the Attic: Montgomery Ward and the ‘Spirit of Progress’
Montgomery Ward, first established in Chicago in the 1870s, was a mail order business that allowed customers, even those outside of urban areas, to...
Out of the Attic: Before CVS and Diversions – Fairlington Centre...
Between 1942 and 1944, the Defense Homes Corporation financed construction of more than 3,400 housing units to comprise the new Fairlington community, located in...
Out of the Attic: The Hugo Black House
Around 1800, Thomas Vowell, Jr., a prominent Alexandria merchant, built a new home along what was then called Water Street. It later became South...
Out of the attic | D.C. boundary markers
The new federal city, the District of Columbia, was laid out in a diamond shape and marked with boundary stones in 1791 and 1792.