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The Langston Golf Course offers an 18-hole course as well as a driving range, and three concession-operated marinas, four boat clubs, and a public boat ramp provide for access to the tidal Anacostia River for recreational boating. "Eagles' Nest", the headquarters of the United States Park Police helicopter aviation unit, is located in Anacostia ...
The headquarters of NACE is located in Anacostia Park at 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE. It is not a visitor center, but has an information desk in the lobby and is open to the public 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Fort Washington Park has a Visitor Center that is open daily 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, April through October.
Anacostia / æ n ə ˈ k ɒ s t i ə / is a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue (formerly Good Hope Road) SE and the neighborhood contains commercial and government buildings, mid-rise mixed development, city-sanctioned art murals and galleries (under the "Art to Go Go" initiative), a performing arts center, a ...
The Anacostia Historic District is a historic district in the city of Washington, D.C., comprising approximately 20 squares [2] [3] and about 550 buildings built between 1854 and 1930. [4] [5] [6] The Anacostia Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The River Terrace neighborhood began in 1937, built on 65 acres of rural, undeveloped land. The cul-de-sac neighborhood was bounded by Benning Road, NE; Anacostia Park; and the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad rights-of-way (DC Route 295 and the East Capitol Street Bridge were not yet built).
The Anacostia Waterfront Corporation (AWC) was a government-owned corporation established in 2004 by the government of District of Columbia, in the United States, to revitalize neighborhoods next to the Anacostia River and to coordinate the environmental rehabilitation and use of the river. [1]
Kingman Lake is a 110-acre (0.45 km 2) artificial lake located in the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., in the United States.The lake was created in 1920 [2] when the United States Army Corps of Engineers used material dredged from the Anacostia River to create Kingman Island. [4]
In 1946, the last pair of bald eagles on the Anacostia River abandoned their nest on Kingman Island. [47] [48] Although a bird watcher claimed to have seen a bald eagle nest on the Anacostia River in 1988, [49] the bald eagle did not return until transplanted eaglets returned to the river as adults in 2004. [48] [50]