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The District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) is an executive branch agency of the government of the District of Columbia in the United States. The department plans, builds, and maintains publicly owned recreational facilities in District of Columbia, including athletic fields, community centers, parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, spray pools and tennis courts.
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National Park Service, DC Department of Parks and Recreation Fort Reno Park is an urban park in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. It is named after Fort Reno , [ 1 ] one of the only locations in the District of Columbia to see combat during the American Civil War .
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Government agencies of the District of Columbia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation maintains the city's 900 acres (3.6 km 2) of athletic fields and playgrounds, 40 swimming pools, and 68 recreation centers. [77] The U.S. Department of Agriculture operates the 446-acre (1.80 km 2 ) United States National Arboretum in Northeast Washington, D.C. [ 78 ]
The park was established later that year by Bono family friend, Geary Simon, a local real estate developer. He approached the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation's Adopt-a-Park program and paid over $25,000 of his own money to revitalize an unused 800-square-foot (74 m 2) triangle of grass on a traffic island. His ...
National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service (NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the United States.
Congress transferred jurisdiction of East Potomac Park to the District of Columbia from the federal government in legislation enacted on August 1, 1914. At the time, public works in the District of Columbia were overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers, so this legislation effectively placed the park under the Corps' jurisdiction. [34]