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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were not that rich. Not compared to New York or many other truly wealthy cities. My family has been here a lot longer than that and the folks with real money - Marjorie Merriweather Post, the Mellons, the Dodges, the McLeans - were few and far between and they came from other places. DC was a stop over.
Georgetown was such a big deal that it was largely an Irish slum. Wesley Heights was upper middle class but was not ever like the upper East side. You don’t know wealth if you think thy hose people really had it. The first wealthy folks that made it here were the Smiths, Cafritzs, maybe Edward Bennet Williams in the law. The wealth explosion here started slowly after WWII and became something real in the 1990’s."

I was talking about the 1970s and 80s not the 1870s and 80s. I can't speak to a world before I was born and I was born in the 1960s. And when I was growing up living in Georgetown were there were a lot of wealhty real estate families like the  as you mentioned. Several of the robber baron families that yo mention had homes in DC, McLean and huge estates in Middleburg and the Eastern Shore.

I am not one of those people  comparing DC To NYC. No, DC was not and still isnt a wealth capital. But it has had - for a long time - a lot of wealthy folks. Gtown was never an Irish ghetto. Cap Hill maybe, but never Gtown. Parts of Gtown along P Street had an African American families. There is still a black church on P right near Rose Park.[/quote]

Actually, it was.

“Starting in the late 19th century Georgetown became somewhat of an Irish and African-American slum (although sometimes this is a bit overstated). It’s reputation grew as a rougher part of town through the early 20th century. “

https://ggwash.org/view/31134/dc-property-values-sure-have-changed-since-1879

My family was part of the gang who turned it around.  You can still go grab a meal at a restaurant we started.  But there were some really wealthy families that largely located here or had a place here a la Bezos to be able to visit government leaders.  But there were not massive numbers of locally made wealthy families.  [/quote]

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