Charles Remond Douglass
1844–1920 · Civil War soldier, Freedmen's Bureau clerk, Hillsdale pioneer
The youngest son of Frederick Douglass and among the first African Americans to enlist in the Union Army, Charles Remond Douglass settled in the new Barry Farm–Hillsdale community east of the Anacostia River in the late 1860s while clerking for the Freedmen's Bureau, helping anchor the neighborhood. He later founded the Highland Beach resort in Maryland in 1892.
Connection to Anacostia: Settled in Barry Farm–Hillsdale in the late 1860s as one of its early Black residents.