Evening star., 1930-06-28
PretentiouS Boulevard Will
Link Civil War Landmarks
Around Capital.
EXACT ROUTE WITHHELD;>
STAFF WORKING ON PLANS
George Washington Memorial
Parkway Will Connect With
Highway in Anacostia.

One-third Of the land upon which the
Fort drive, the pretentious boulevard
that will link up the various Civil waA
forts encircling Washington, has now
been contracted for by the National
Capital Park and Planning Comnission.N =
While details of the plan for the drive
have not been made public. the COM
missions staff is at work on plans lead.
ing to the drawing of actual routes.
AS there Is a large amount of land
involved in this program that has not
as yet been purchased, the commissions
officials declined to make public the ex-
act route. No funds for starting i'm
mediate development are in hand.
The Fort drive will connect with the
George Washington Memorial parkway.
which Will be mapped out from Fort
washington, Md. to Great Falls, at A
point on the Shepherd parkway in Ana
acostla. Ihe commission has made ar-N
rangementS to acquire the Portland
street area in AnacOstia for this de-
velopment, and several parcels of land
are now In the process of condemnation
proceedings. The George washington
memorial parkway will make contact
with the Fort drive on the east side
Oh The Shepherd parkway.
Famed Forts to Be Linked.
One Of the major projects of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, the Fort drive, will connect
with f1ne boulevard the famed forts
OF the days of 81 and '65 that formed
vital links in the defense of Washing
ton. Beginning at Battery Parrott be-
yond the junction of Conduit road and
M street, 1t is proposed that the drive
Will travel northward to Battery Kemble
ana Battery Vermont, past American
University to the site of Fort Gains, be-
yond the reservoir, near Fort BayardR
and past the trenches near Fortieth
street and Wisconsin avenue. Fort Reno
VIII be an important Landmark in the
Fort drive as will Fort De Russy, in the
Rock Greek Park region.
Fort Stevens eastward of Sixteenth
street, will be another point of Civil
War interest on the drive Fort SIocum,
located at Kansas avenue, and Fort
Totten, near the Soldiers Home, are TO
be cardinal points on the program At
the northerly end of the District the
drive Is to skirt Mckinley Hill and pass
on to Fort Lincoln, near the National
Training School for Boys.
WIN faSS Group East OF River.
The Fort drive will then encounter a
group of famed forts east of the Ana-A
costa River. Fort Mahan. Fort Chap
lin, Fort Sedgwick, Fort Dupont, Fort
Davis and the sites of Forts Baker and
Wagner will be met as the motorist of
the future travels southwark on this
boulevard. Southwark of Good Hope
road Fort Stanton is to be encountered
near the Stickfoot Greek Parkway.
The tentative route of the Fort drive
then is in the vicinity of ST. Eliza
beth's Hospital, going within sight of
the site of Fort Snyder and travelling
on toward Nichols avenue and Fort
Carroll and Fort Greble, at Blue Plains.
D. G.
Lieut.. Col U. S. Grant Sd, executive
officer OF the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission; Capt. E. N.
Chisolm, jr, the commissions engineer;
Charles w. Eliot, I'd, its city planners
and c. l.. Wirth. its landscape archi-
tect, are giving close attention to de-
tails of the Fort drive. 1t is expected
that land for this project will be ac-
CURED as rapidly as Congress appropri-
ates funds for this development.