Good Hope is the residential neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C, near Anacostia. This neighborhood is generally middle class and is dominated by separate and semi-detached family homes. The annual Fort Dupont Ice Arena skating rink and the Anacostia Smithsonian Institution Museum are nearby. Good Hope is limited by Fort Stanton Park in the north, Alabama Avenue SE to the south, Naylor Road SE to the west, and Branch Avenue SE to the east. The proposed Skyland Shopping Center redevelopment project is within environmental limits.
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History
Good Hope is the first permanent modern settlement in Southeast Washington.
Native Americans Nacotchtank was the first settler inhabiting the area now known as Good Hope, life and fishing along the nearby Anacostia River. Captain John Smith was the first European to visit the region in 1612 C.E., naming the river "Nacotchtank". War and disease thinned Nacochtank, and for the last 25 years of the 17th century this tribe no longer existed as a functional unit and some of the remaining members joined other local Piscataway Indian tribes.
The European settlement in Southeast Washington first took place in 1662 in the Blue Plains (now a municipal sewage treatment site just west of the modern Bellevue neighborhood), and at St. Elizabeth (now the site of St. Elizabeths Hospital) and Giesborough (now called Barry Farm) in 1663. Lord Baltimore granted Good Hope area holdings and much of what is now Southeast DC (named "Chichester") to John Meeks in 1664. "Anacostia Fort" was built at altitude in the current Skyland neighborhood in the 18th century.
This area became part of the District of Columbia in 1791. The Congress passed the 1790 Residence Act to establish a federal district that would build a new capital, and George Washington chose its current location in 1791 (option ratified by Congress later that year). William Marbury, a wealthy Georgetown merchant who later became a party in the Marbury v. Landmark. Madison the Supreme Court case, bought most of the "Chichester Channels" some time in the late 18th or early 19th century.
The Washington Navy Yard's growth created a need to provide housing for many new employees working at the facility, but little land was available for new development in the area and high house prices. As a result, in 1818, the private "Upper Navy Yard Bridge" was built on the Anacostia River on 11th Street SE. A toll bridge, the bridge is designed to allow easy access to Anacostia so that housing can be built on the east coast of the Anacostia River. A road was built from the bridge to the town of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and was named Upper Marlborough Road (called Good Hope Road SE today).
In 1820, the city of Good Hope, D.C., was established around a tavern located near the intersection of Good Hope Road SE and Alabama Avenue SE. The business began building buildings along Upper Marlborough Road towards the village of Good Hope, and a post office was established in the area and was named Good Hope Station. In 1849, the name of the post office was changed to Anacostia.
Good expectations remain a bit more than crossroads, however. Uniontown/Anacostia, Barry Farm, Congress Heights, and Randle Highlands were the focus of most residential and retail development up to 1940. Even these communities remained isolated from each other, and most of the land between them remained undeveloped until World War II. The oppressive need for housing during the war, caused by a large influx of federal workers into the capital, led to the extensive development of Southeast Washington and the relationship between Good Hope and other parts of southeast D.C.
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