Talk:Shaw (Washington, D.C.)

message: Here is a Department of Interior funded Historic Survey of what is called Shaw East, done by Kelsey and Associates. 
This is quite an exhaustive survey, with methodologies and bibliography.
There is a reference to a Camp Campbell outside Boundary, now Florida Avenue.
The Civil War encampment known as
Camp Campbell had been established at the
beginning of the Civil War just outside of the
boundary of the city, to the north of 6th and
Boundary (Florida) Avenue, which obviously had
a profound effect on the emerging neighborhood
covered with this survey area. Occupied throughout the conflict, the edges of the camp attracted
free black men and soldiers’ dependants all supporting the war effort; it has also been
documented to have attracted religious institutions and housing speculators interested in
supporting the camp through both religious means and profitable speculation of housing. Many
of these groups formed congregations after the conflict and built wood frame chapels in the area,
easily moved as land became more and more valuable and developed into rows of townhouses,
such as the Trinity Methodist congregation
Another noteworhty quote for the racial make-up:
What can be clearly seen is that the survey area was populated mostly by white residents
in 1880. Their occupations included painter, carpenter, grocer, store clerks, government clerks,
plumber, post office workers, letter carrier, messengers, barbers, and teachers. By 1900, the area
was a mixture of mostly white, with mulatto and black residents, with the white population
clustered on the main north-south streets, close to the streetcar lines. Smaller streets such as
Marion and Franklin Street, were almost exclusively black by 1900, while the remainder of the
survey area was mixed, especially on letter streets, which often witnessed white, black, mulatto,
and foreign born nationals living together on each block.
The number of foreign-born nationals dramatically increased by 1900, mirroring the
national trend. They may have found older housing in the Shaw East survey area that was both
affordable and adequate for many of their rather entrepreneurial activities that were documented
such as baking, bottling, blacksmithing, cigar making, and harness making. Countries in which
survey area residents living in 1900 had been born year included the following: Austria, Canada,
England, France, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Sweden,
Switzerland, and Turkey. By far, the most foreign born residents had hailed from Germany, with
Ireland being second.
By the time the 1910 and 1920 census was enumerated, this mix became even more
diverse, but with a much increased black population in professional classes. Many worked as
clerks, teachers, musicians, physicians, builders, carpenters, and hucksters. The 1930 census
reveals, however, that the survey area was nearly completely populated by a black population,
with a wide and diverse range of employment from barber, cook, sexton, bricklayer, waiter,
laborers, cleaners, plasterers, chauffeurs, laundresses, and grocery store owners.
HarryBrown 19:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Shaw East Historic Survey

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