Resources and Sources
Anacostia's history on this site is built from the archives and references below. The history and timeline pages cite these sources directly as numbered footnotes. If you want to research the neighborhood yourself, this is where to start.
Frederick Douglass and Cedar Hill
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (National Park Service)
- NPS — Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass's Rustic Sanctuary
Neighborhood and historic district
- DC Historic Sites (DC Preservation League) — Anacostia Historic District
- Cultural Tourism DC — "Uniontown, DC's First Suburb" (Historical Marker Database)
- WETA Boundary Stones — "What's in a Name? Anacostia"
- SAH Archipedia — Southeast of the Anacostia River
Barry Farm, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Black Anacostia
- D.C. Policy Center — The history and evolution of Anacostia's Barry Farm
- Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum — "We Shall Not Be Moved: Barry Farm"
- Historical Marker Database — "Barry Farm – Hillsdale"
Institutions and infrastructure
- Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
- U.S. General Services Administration — St. Elizabeths West Campus
- Anacostia Watershed Society
- Anacostia Arts Center
Archives and image collections
- Library of Congress — Prints & Photographs Online Catalog — public-domain photographs of Anacostia, Cedar Hill, and St. Elizabeths.
- Chronicling America (Library of Congress) — digitized historic newspapers.
- DC Public Library — The People's Archive
Spotted a source we should add, or an error to fix? See the about page — corrections are welcome.