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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]
Fort Totten Park in Washington, D.C., is closed after World War I-era munitions were discovered there this spring, and park officials say there may be more.
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.
Commuters walk through the snow at the Fort Totten Metro station in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images A woman on skis walks her dog along the National Mall as snow ...
A plaque is located in Fort Totten's mezzanine that commemorates the victims of the crash. [ citation needed ] On June 22, 2015, the sixth anniversary of the crash, the Legacy Memorial Park in honor of the victims was opened; [ 47 ] [ 48 ] ground was broken exactly one year previously by Mayor Vincent C. Gray . [ 49 ]
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.
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 ...