Georgia Avenue / Walter Reed

Georgia Avenue / Walter Reed is a locality in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic and has about 8,000 residents. Georgia Avenue / Walter Reed is situated nearby to the neighborhood Shepherd Park, as well as near the locality The Parks At Walter Reed.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library and Silver Spring station.

Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library

Library

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Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was opened to the public on July 29, 1990. The library was named in honor of Juanita E. Thornton, a teacher and community activist.

Silver Spring station

Railway station

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Silver Spring station is a former train station on the Metropolitan Subdivision in Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was built in 1945 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the foundation of a previous station, a Victorian-style brick structure built in 1878.

Takoma Park Branch Library

Library

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

The Takoma Park Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that serves the Takoma neighborhood. It opened in 1911.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shepherd Park and Takoma.

Shepherd Park

Neighborhood

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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.

Takoma

Suburb

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Takoma is a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C. It is located in Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B, in the district's Fourth Ward. It borders the city of Takoma Park, Maryland.

Colonial Village

Neighborhood

Photo: Egunt07, CC BY 3.0.

Colonial Village is an area in northwest Washington, D.C., built in 1931 with 80 residences. The homes are reproductions of colonial buildings, such as the Moore House, where General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

Georgia Avenue / Walter Reed

Type: Locality with 8,000 residents
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.98256° or 38° 58′ 57″ north

Longitude

-77.0263° or 77° 1′ 35″ west

Population

8,000

Elevation

312 feet (95 metres)

Open location code

87C4XXMF+2F

GeoNames ID

13526892

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Localities in the Area

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