Qualla: Georgetown https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Georgetown https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown Georgetown: Introduction https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown/ When the District of Columbia was created in 1791, Georgetown was already an established port town - a busy tobacco and slave trading entrepot at the head of navigation on the Potomac, with its own city government, its own merchants' guild, its own university. The new federal city was built around it. Georgetown remained legally a separate municipality until 1871, when Congress consolidated it into the District. The cobblestone streets and Federal-period brick rowhouses that today make Georgetown one of the most photographed neighborhoods in America date from the period when the place was independent - before Washington existed, before the Civil War, before the canal that destroyed Georgetown's economy was built, before John and Jacqueline Kennedy moved in and made it the social capital of midcentury America. Walking along O Street between 33rd and 35th NW is walking through 1800.

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/c/j/washington-d-c-georgetown-wk/dqcj-georgetown-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Georgetown: Tahoga https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown/ Before the British and the tobacco came, this bluff above the Potomac was a Nacotchanke village called Tahoga. English fur trader Henry Fleet recorded the settlement in 1632, the earliest written description by a European of the site. British colonists settled the area in 1696 an...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/c/j/washington-d-c-georgetown-wk/dqcj-georgetown-tahoga.mp3 0:06 2 full Georgetown: The Canal That Failed https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown/ Construction began in 1828 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, intended to connect Georgetown with Cumberland, Maryland, and eventually the Ohio River. The canal cost approximately 11 million dollars to build - an enormous sum for the era - and was completed to Cumberland in 1850, ...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/c/j/washington-d-c-georgetown-wk/dqcj-georgetown-the-canal-that-failed.mp3 0:06 3 full Georgetown: From Slum to Capital https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown/ By the late nineteenth century Georgetown was no longer the prosperous port it had been. The Potomac itself had silted up to the point where deep-draft ships could no longer dock; the canal had failed commercially; the surrounding industries closed. The Anglo-American elite moved...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/c/j/washington-d-c-georgetown-wk/dqcj-georgetown-from-slum-to-capital.mp3 0:06 4 full Georgetown: The Kennedy Effect https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown/ John and Jacqueline Kennedy lived at 3307 N Street from 1957 until they moved to the White House in 1961. The Kennedy presidency made Georgetown the social capital of the Camelot administration. Robert McNamara lived around the corner. Joseph Alsop, the syndicated columnist, thre...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/c/j/washington-d-c-georgetown-wk/dqcj-georgetown-the-kennedy-effect.mp3 0:06 5 full Georgetown: M Street and the Exorcist Steps https://qualla.com/washington-d-c-georgetown/ Today's Georgetown commercial life centers on M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, the two main thoroughfares that cross at the heart of the neighborhood. M Street's retail strip - Brooks Brothers, Anthropologie, Apple, Athleta, Sweetgreen, Lululemon - resembles the upscale main street...

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