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Tucked just inside the city's eastern border, the triangular area is bounded by Eastern Avenue on the northeast, Kenilworth Avenue on the northwest, Division Avenue on the East, and Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue on the South. The foundations of Deanwood’s history are the Benning-Sheriff-Lowrie-Dean and Fowler farms, both carved from a 1703 land grant. Always known for its self-reliance, Deanwood was a stable nucleus of blue- and white-collar Black families that passed their skills on to family members or to their neighbors. This network enhanced the strong sense of economic independence and self-reliance of Deanwood's Black community. Some of Washington's black architects who designed buildings for Deanwood include Lewis Giles, Sr., H.D. Woodson (for whom the high school is named), and George A. Ferguson.
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