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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in chevy chase pay to be surrounded by rich white people. They even say so in this thread before their comments get deleted[/quote]

PP directly above you, and, yeah, exactly.  I mean, isn't that what they think is so great about it?  That's what all the other stuff is code for, when you get down to it.  FWIW, I'm a white woman who grew up in Bethesda, so I know this area well.[/quote]

Chevy Chase was built for exactly this. It’s not like it just happened that way. The black and poor people who were here were removed and the housing and amenities were uniformly expensive and exclusively for white people. That’s not ancient history. [/quote]

Do you know of specific black residents in Ch Ch in the past, especially in what’s now the Village? I’m familiar with a past of black residents in currently Chi-Chi areas of DC+MD closer to the River.[/quote]

DP, but you asked.  Not ancient history.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21014041/upper-northwest-activists-and-the-descendant-of-a-remarkable-black-family-want-to-put-back-missing-pieces-of-dc-history

Also, a little about the racist founder of Chevy Chase:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/09/29/racist-history-chevy-chase-home-power-players-like-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.95bfa4acfb55

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I'll post what I posted a minute before, because you haven't answered what I asked. I know what you've posted. THIS IS WHAT I'M interested in:
I'm interested in the possibility or specific sources on black residents in what's now 20815, especially in the Village, before Newlands hit the scene. I know of a bunch of similar communities in places like Kent/Palisades, Westbard, near Seven Locks Rd with it's very unfortunate old creek name, etc. [/quote]

I don't know of any. I do know there was a large black neighborhood at Fort Reno that was removed and there were also people removed near Lafayette (which is why that big park is there). I understand those aren't in 20815. I don't think the DC line makes any substantive distinction in terms of the history, and certainly the exclusion of people is a larger theme in the story than the removal of people since so much of the land was empty/rural. [/quote]

Oh good, PP posted the link to the story about Lafayette. If you feel like that has nothing to do with 20815 because it's over the line, that makes no sense. [/quote]

I was asking for some very specific information about something that was hinted at by a PP: that what is now Chevy Chase MD has a history, likely pre-Newlands, of black residents. Please don't assume anything more than that I was making a request for that information.[/quote]

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