Inner-city neighborhood creates real-life farmville

Washington, D.C.’s historic, traditionally African-American neighborhood of LeDroit Park has quietly become an incubator for exemplary urban green practices.

Located a little over a mile north of downtown D.C. and bordering Howard University, LeDroit Park was once a planned, architecturally unified, and carefully landscaped suburb carved out of rural land. Founded in the second half of the nineteenth century, it has been home to a number of prominent African Americans, including such luminaries as Ralph Bunche (United Nations leader), Edward Brooke (U.S. Senator, Massachusetts), Mary Church Terrell (a co-founder of the NAACP), and Walter Washington (D.C.’s first mayor). The neighborhood features several prominent murals and an African-American Heritage Trail.

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