When Abigail Adams arrived in Washington in 1800, she described Georgetown as “the very dirtiest hole I ever saw.” Then a major port with a huge slave and tobacco trade, cheap housing, and commercial wharves, the town may have been unattractive. But the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and its competitor, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, brought prosperity to Georgetown, and therefore style. When the canal began to fail after flood damage, slum conditions returned, until Franklin D. Roosevelt partly rehabilitated the area. Its current modish position stems from the Kennedy era, when Georgetown became fashionable.
For information on the Metro Connection, visit www.georgetowndc.com/shuttle.php or telephone 202-625-RIDE
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