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Fort Totten is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C.. Fort Totten is located between Riggs Road N.E. to the north, Bates Rd N.E., Allison Street N.E., and the southern end of Fort Totten Park to the south, the Washington Metro Red Line tracks to the east, and North Capitol Street NW to the west.
Fort Totten was a medium-sized fort, a seven-sided polygon with a perimeter of 272 yards (249 m). It was located atop a ridge along the main road from Washington to Silver Spring, Maryland, about three miles (5 km) north of the Capitol, and a half-mile from the Military Asylum or Soldiers' Home, where President Abraham Lincoln spent his summers while president. [2]
DC Genealogical Database; National Capital Planning Commission; D.C. Guide; Washington DC, street by street (historic and modern photographs) Street map of Ward 4. Office of Councilmember Muriel Bowser.
The station's name comes from a Civil War-era fortification which itself was named after General Joseph Gilbert Totten, the Chief Engineer of the antebellum US Army. The station is located in the middle of Fort Totten Park in Northeast, serving the neighborhoods of Fort Totten to the west and Queens Chapel to the east.
DC neighborhoods map. Barnaby Woods • Brightwood • Brightwood Park • Chevy Chase (Part of the neighborhood is also in Ward 3) • Colonial Village • Crestwood • Fort Totten • Hawthorne • Manor Park • Petworth • Riggs Park • Lamond-Riggs • Shepherd Park • Sixteenth Street Heights • Takoma
Fort Totten may refer to: Fort Totten (Queens), a Civil War–era military installation in New York City; Fort Totten, North Dakota. Fort Totten State Historic Site, a Dakota frontier-era fort and Native American boarding school; Fort Totten (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood in north east Washington, D.C. Fort Totten (WMATA station), a Metro ...
The tunnel turns northeast under New Hampshire Avenue NW and across Fort Totten Park, intersecting the Red Line. The Green Line runs east through Fort Circle Park and tunnels under Queens Chapel Road (Maryland Route 500) to emerge along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad right of way to Greenbelt adjacent to the Capital Beltway. [180]
Intersection of 14th St. and Tuckerman St. NW, Brightwood, February 2018. The boundaries of Brightwood have varied over the years. In the mid-nineteenth century, the name generally encompassed the region north of Brightwood Park, west of Fort Totten, east of Rock Creek, and south of the Maryland line.