Fort Lincoln (Washington, D.C.)

Fort Lincoln
Neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Fort Lincoln within the District of Columbia
Coordinates: 38°55′26″N 76°57′22″W / 38.924°N 76.956°W / 38.924; -76.956Coordinates: 38°55′26″N 76°57′22″W / 38.924°N 76.956°W / 38.924; -76.956
Country	United States
District	Washington, D.C.
Ward	Ward 5
Government
• Councilmember	Kenyan McDuffie
Area
• Total	0.47 sq mi (1.2 km²)

Fort Lincoln is a neighborhood located in northeastern Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Bladensburg Road to the northwest, Eastern Avenue to the northeast, New York Avenue NE to the south, and South Dakota Avenue NE to the southwest. The town of Colmar Manor, Maryland, is across Eastern Avenue from the Fort Lincoln neighborhood, as is the Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

The name Fort Lincoln was originally used for a Civil War Fort in adjacent Prince George's County, Maryland, across the D.C. line from the Washington neighborhood bearing its name.

Civil war site and cemetery

Main article: Fort Lincoln Park

The Fort Lincoln area includes a Civil War-era fort, Fort Lincoln, constructed in 1861 for the defense of Washington. The fort is now part of Fort Lincoln Cemetery, and can be visited.^[1]^[2]

Neighborhood

This northeast Washington neighborhood is home to the Fort Lincoln "New Town" development constructed in the 1960s and 1970s.^[3] This neighborhood is currently the home of Cathy Lanier, Chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police.^[4] In 2011 another 42 acres of the wetland forest park was sold to make a shopping center.^[5]^[6]

References

↑ ""Battery Jameson, Fort Lincoln"" Waymark
↑ Maryland Historical Trust, Inventory Form for State Historic Sites Inventory - Battery Jameson (PG-68-15a)
↑ Ellen Hoffman (26 September 1969). "New Towners The Voiceless Marylanders, Columbia Citizens Seeking More Say". The Washington Post.
↑ "Hope Stirs In Fort Lincoln Growth, New Neighbor Inspire Pocket of D.C. to Believe in Change," By Clarence Williams, The Washington Post, Apr 30, 2007, p. B01.
↑ Kelly (December 13, 2011). "Shops at Dakota Crossing and Costco to Start Now, Open Next Year". DCmud. DCRE, INC. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
↑ "Fort Lincoln Wetlands". Anacostia Riverkeeper. Waterkeeper Alliance. 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2011.

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Mount Rainier, Maryland

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Gateway

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Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

Ward 1	Adams Morgan Columbia Heights Kalorama LeDroit Park Mount Pleasant Park View Pleasant Plains Shaw Woodley Park

Ward 2	Burleith Chinatown Downtown Dupont Circle Foggy Bottom Georgetown Kalorama Logan Circle Mount Vernon Square Penn Quarter Shaw Southwest Federal Center West End

Ward 3	American University Park Berkley Cathedral Heights Chevy Chase Cleveland Park Colony Hill Forest Hills Foxhall Friendship Heights Glover Park Kent Massachusetts Heights McLean Gardens North Cleveland Park Observatory Circle The Palisades Potomac Heights Spring Valley Tenleytown Wakefield Wesley Heights Woodland Normanstone Woodley Park

Ward 4	Barnaby Woods Brightwood Brightwood Park Chevy Chase Colonial Village Crestwood Fort Stevens Ridge Fort Totten Hawthorne Manor Park North Portal Estates Petworth Queens Chapel Riggs Park Shepherd Park Sixteenth Street Heights Takoma

Ward 5	Arboretum Bloomingdale Brentwood Brookland Carver Langston Eckington Edgewood Fort Lincoln Fort Totten Gateway Ivy City Langdon Michigan Park North Michigan Park Pleasant Hill Queens Chapel Stronghold-Metropolis View Trinidad Truxton Circle Woodridge

Ward 6	Barney Circle Capitol Hill Judiciary Square Kingman Park Mount Vernon Triangle Navy Yard Near Northeast NoMa Southwest Waterfront Sursum Corda Swampoodle

Ward 7	Benning Benning Heights Benning Ridge Burrville Capitol View Central Northeast Civic Betterment Deanwood Dupont Park East River Heights Eastland Gardens Fairfax Village Fairlawn Fort Davis Fort Dupont Good Hope Greenway Hillbrook Hillcrest Kenilworth Kingman Park Lincoln Heights Marshall Heights Mayfair Naylor Gardens Penn Branch Randle Highlands River Terrace Twining

Ward 8	Anacostia Barry Farm Bellevue Buena Vista Congress Heights Douglass Fairlawn Garfield Heights Knox Hill Shipley Terrace Skyland Washington Highlands Woodland

American Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C.

Departments	Department of the East Department of Washington, D.C. Department of the Potomac Military District of Washington Department of the Rappahanock Defenses of Washington, D.C. Department of Washington

Union Army Forces	Army of the Potomac XXII Corps

Potomac Approaches	Fort Washington Fort Foote Battery Rodgers

Arlington Line	Fort Willard Fort O'Rourke Fort Weed Fort Farnsworth Fort Lyon Fort Ellsworth Fort Williams Fort Worth Fort Ward Battery Garesche Fort Reynolds Fort Barnard Fort Berry Fort Richardson Fort Albany Fort Scott Fort Runyon Fort Jackson Fort Craig Fort McPherson Fort Tillinghast Fort Cass Fort Whipple Fort Woodbury Fort Morton Fort Corcoran Fort Haggerty Fort Bennett Fort Strong Fort C. F. Smith Fort Munson Fort Ramsey Fort Buffalo Fort Taylor Fort Ethan Allen Fort Marcy

Northwest Quadrant	Battery Kemble Battery Vermont Battery Alexander Fort Sumner (MD) Fort Sumner (VA) Fort Mansfield Fort Gaines Fort Simmons Fort Bayard Fort Reno Fort Kearny Fort DeRussy Fort Stevens

Northeast Quadrant	Fort Slocum Fort Totten Fort Slemmer Fort Bunker Hill Fort Saratoga Fort Thayer Fort Lincoln Fort Mahan

Eastern Branch	Fort Chaplin Fort Meigs Fort Dupont Fort Saratoga Fort Davis Fort Baker Fort Wagner Fort Ricketts Fort Stanton Fort Snyder Fort Carroll Fort Greble

National Park Service (Web) Map of defenses in 1865

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