Add this copy of Port Town to Urban Neighborhood: the Georgetown to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
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Very good. xii, 148 pages. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix: Notes on Primary Sources. Bibliography. Index. Signed and dated by a previous owner on the title page. The contents include Georgetown before 1880, The Economy, The Physical Setting, The People and their Families, and The Community. Originally an eighteenth-century Potomac River port town, Georgetown was included in the ten-mile square set aside for the federal capital in 1791. As the nineteenth century unfolded, Georgetown lost its political, social, and economic independence and became one of many neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. Today it is a prestigious and lively section of a thriving international metropolitan area. The Center for Washington Area Studies of The George Washington University has published historical studies of other sections of Washington, D.C., such as Adams Morgan, Brookland, and Foggy Bottom. But the Georgetown waterfront has begged for attention. Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and commercial district in Northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River. Founded in 1751 as part of the colonial-era Province of Maryland, Georgetown predated the establishment of Washington, D.C. by 40 years. Georgetown was an independent municipality until 1871 when the United States Congress created a new consolidated government for the entire District of Columbia. A separate act, passed in 1895, repealed Georgetown's remaining local ordinances and renamed Georgetown's streets to conform with those in Washington, D.C. Kathryn Schneider Smith (Kathy) is a writer/editor and community-based public historian whose career has included work in historical societies, historic preservation, and cultural heritage tourism. Working first in her home state of Wisconsin, then for four decades in Washington, DC, and now continuing in semi-retirement, her special interest has always been in the relationship between physical places and the human communities and activities that have shaped and defined them. A journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Kathy began her career as head of the Office of Public Information and then Director of the Office of Publications for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. In Washington, DC, with an American Studies degree from George Washington University, she spent decades researching and sharing the history of Washington as hometown as well as national capital—often using the phrase Beyond the Monuments to describe her focus. She became chair of the board of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the founding editor of its journal, Washington History. She inspired and consulted on the Henrick Smith film, Duke Ellington's Washington. Kathy is author or editor of a number of books, including Port Town to Urban Neighborhood: the Georgetown Waterfront of Washington, DC, 1880-1920; Fifty Years of Building Community: A History of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation; City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of the District of Columbia, You in History, and The Washington, D.C. Story Continues for the DC Public Schools; and Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation's Capital. Kathy served for 11 years as a DC advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the final three as chair of the Trust's National Board of Advisors and a member of its Board of Trustees.
