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Shepherd Park is a neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. In the years following World War II , restrictive covenants which had prevented Jews and African Americans from purchasing homes in the neighborhood were no longer enforced, and the neighborhood became largely Jewish and African American.
Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) System. It was opened to the public on July 29, 1990. The library was named in honor of Juanita E. Thornton (December 25, 1912 – September 14, 1990), a teacher and community activist.
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Bowser was born in Washington D.C., and grew up in North Michigan Park in northeast D.C. [3] In 1990, she graduated from Elizabeth Seton High School, a private all-girls Catholic high school located in Bladensburg, Maryland. [4] [5] She received a college scholarship because of her above average grades. [6]
George Shepherd Park (October 28, 1811 – June 6, 1890) was a Texas War of Independence hero and founder of Parkville, Missouri, [1] Park University, and Manhattan, Kansas. He helped establish Kansas State University .
As of 2024, the last new full-service branch to open (and not replace a previous building) was the Rosedale Neighborhood Library, opening in 2012 in Kingman Park. The most recent rebuilt library to open was the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, which opened in 2022 in Queens Chapel .
Jair Lynch grew up in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., [5] [6] where he attended Alexander Shepherd Elementary School. [7] He evinced an early interest in architecture, and at the age of three was already replicating famous buildings in the city using Play-Doh [ 6 ] and covering tables with cities he would build from Legos ...