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Mount Pleasant and Rock Creek Park | Exploring Washington DC Neighbourhoods

In this video we explore Mount Pleasant and Rock Creel Park In Washington DC. Mount Pleasant offers an eclectic mix of homes from Row Houses to apartment blocks. It’s also contrasted by leafy quiet streets and busy main roads with high traffic. There’s even a historical walk marked by sidewalk posters that explain the origins and milestones of the area. In the late 1800’s Mount Pleasant was considered a rural area as it was separated from the city by lots of open land, but due to a regular horse-drawn street car travelling between 14th street and downtown DC, it soon merged within the boundaries of the city. By the 1920’s many houses, apartments and the library had popped up and the neighbourhood attracted middle- to upper middle class people. However, there’s a dark side to the neighbourhood’s history - by 1927 all homeowners had signed a restrictive covenant forbidding the sale of houses to African Americans. In 1948 this rule was abolished and the neighbourhood became more diverse and cosmopolitan in it’s residents. From the 1970s to 1990’s parts of the neighbourhood were overrun by drugs, crime and other shady activities. In the early 1990’s a 2 day race-fueled fight caused much damage in the area, but in the early 2000’s the neighbourhood starting seeing a reduction of incidents and improvements in the area. Today Mount Pleasant is a multi-cultural desirable neighbourhood with ample eateries, grocery stories, cafes and bars, plenty of options for our vegan friends and a great mix of city life with nature access. FOLLOW ALONG: 📸 Vero: https://vero.co/lookingforadventure 💻 Blog: https://abigailk.com/blog 🐮 Happy Cow: https://www.happycow.net/members/prof... #lookingforadventure #rockcreekpark #mountpleasant #washingtondc