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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Ride the Rhode Island Ave Streetcar from DC to College Park

Film from 1950s puts you in the driver's seat of old streetcar line which served Riverdale. Now see the plan which would return streetcars to Rhode Island Avenue in the next 10 years.

Ever wonder what it was like to ride the old streetcar system which helped establish Mount Rainier, Hyattsville, Riverdale Park, College Park and other Rhode Island and Baltimore avenue communities in Prince George's County? Well, wonder no more. Yesterday, the folks over at our local metro-area urban policy blog Greater Greater Washington picked up on a 14-minute video recently uploaded to YouTube which follows the old DC Transit streetcar line 82 from 5th and G streets NW (near the Verizon Center today) north to what is today the Branchville neighborhood of College Park. For reference, the old DC streetcar system was shut down in the early 1960s after more than 70 years of electric streetcar history in the district. The video we are …

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Jenni Pompi

11:46 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013

That's so cool, Peggy Anne. I'm glad you enjoyed it.   more ›

Monday, October 31, 2011

Riverdale Park's History Hits Bookstores

The town's little known history is published in the Historic Association of Riverdale Park's new book.

  • THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
  • Jenni Pompi
  • Monday, October 31, 2011

Arcadia Publishing released "Riverdale Park," Monday, a book about the extensive history of Riverdale Park, going back over two hundred years to the present day. Written by Riverdale Park residents and Historic Association of Riverdale Park (HARP) members Don Lynch, Tom Alderson, and Melissa Avery, this book on Riverdale Park's history is the first of its kind, according to Avery. However, another book was written about Riverdale Park's history in 1996. "The Riverdale Story: Mansion to Municipality," was published by the Town of Riverdale. "We knew there was a lot of history in the town that people don't know about," said HARP president and book co-author Avery. She added that the neighboring towns of Hyattsville and College Park have …

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Franklins Restaurant, Brewery and General Store (in Hyattsville Patch), Dumm's Corner, Busboys and Poets (in Hyattsville Patch), and 1 more ›

Melissa Avery

10:00 am on Thursday, November 3, 2011

http://www.prlog.org/11694258-history-of-riverdale-park-told-through-photographs.html Press release Book   more ›

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