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P Street (Washington, D.C.)
P Street refers to four different streets within the city of Washington, D.C. The streets were named by President George Washington in 1791 as part of a general street naming nomenclature, in which east-west running streets were named alphabetically and north-south running streets numerically.〔Hagner, Alexander. "Street Nomenclature of Washington City." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 7 (1904), pp. 237-261, 240.〕
==NW==
P Street NW runs in an easterly direction from North Capitol Street to the eastern boundary of Georgetown University (at 37th Street NW), with an additional block-long section running from the western edge of Glover-Archbold Park to Foxhall Road NW. P Street NW crosses Rock Creek and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway via the P Street Bridge. P Street NW also crosses Dupont Circle and Logan Circle. P Street NW is the most historic of the four streets, having been the first P Street plotted in the city's history. The northern boundary of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia, as surveyed in July 1795, listed the P Street ford at Rock Creek as the starting point of the city's original northern boundary.〔Hagner, Alexander. "Street Nomenclature of Washington City." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 7 (1904), pp. 237-261, 257.〕 The first bridge to carry P Street over the creek was Paper Mill Bridge.〔〔Hawkins, Don Alexandr. "The Landscape of the Federal City: A 1792 Walking Tour." ''Washington History.'' 3:1 (Spring/Summer 1991), p. 10-33, 16.〕
P Street NW was important both commercially and topographically. The P Street ford marked the farthest point at which ocean-going ships could travel up Rock Creek.〔Hawkins, Don Alexandr. "The Landscape of the Federal City: A 1792 Walking Tour." ''Washington History.'' 3:1 (Spring/Summer 1991), p. 10-33, 17.〕 Slash Run, a major tributary of Rock Creek, began at 1700 P Street.〔The "run", or creek, got its name from "slashes", or stands, or silver maples which stood near its headwaters. See: Hawkins, Don Alexandr. "The Landscape of the Federal City: A 1792 Walking Tour." ''Washington History.'' 3:1 (Spring/Summer 1991), p. 10-33, 21.〕 P Street NW was also home to the city's earliest free African American residents. One of the first free blacks to buy property in the city was Lethe Hill, who purchased a lot at P and 30th Streets in 1819. Another free black, William Becraft, bought a home a block away.〔Brown, Letitia. "Residence Patterns of Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1800-1860." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 69/70 (1969/1970), pp. 66-79, 74.〕 In time, a large neighborhood of free blacks formed in a 10-block area bounded by P Street NW, Constitution Avenue NW, 16th Street NW, and 6th Street NW.〔Half of all property in this area was owned by African Americans. See: Brown, Letitia. "Residence Patterns of Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1800-1860." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 69/70 (1969/1970), pp. 66-79, 76.〕 In the 1890s, Riggs Market—one of the city's important (if smaller) markets—was located on P Street NW between 14th and 15th Streets NW.〔McArdle, Walter F. "The Development of the Business Sector in Washington, D. C., 1800-1973." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 49 (1973/1974), p. 556-594, 567.〕
In 1885, Major General John A. Logan purchased the "Stone Mansion" on Iowa Circle and P Street NW. Three-time presidential candidate William J. Bryan later leased it from the Logans.〔Emery, Fred A. "Mount Pleasant and Meridian Hill." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 33/34 (1932), p. 187-223, 202.〕 Congress changed the circle's name to "Logan Circle" in December 1930 in Logan's honor.〔Proctor, John Claggett. "Chronicler's Report for 1930." ''Records of the Columbia Historical Society.'' 33/34 (1932), p. 352-356, 356.〕 The Dupont Circle Citizens Association was founded in 1922 in a townhouse at 1767 P Street.〔(Dupont Circle Citizens Association. No date. ) Accessed 2012-10-20.〕
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