School House Rock Traditional Geocache

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mtn-man: If you can fix or verify this cache it can be easily unarchived. For now I am going to archive it. Feel free to contact me through my profile linked below if you fix it.

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Hidden : 7/14/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


You are looking for a micro cache that contains only a log. Please bring a pen or pencil.

This cache is located by the Ebenezer Church on Capitol Hill, not far from the Library of Congress, Supreme Court, and US Capitol.

The Ebenezer Church is full of history. The current church was dedicated on November 4, 1897, however the Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church at 4th and D dates back to 1838 when the black congregation out grew the galleries in the Fourth Street Station. The original church was known as Little Ebenezer and a replica can be found just around the corner on Fourth Street.

While the history of the church is interesting, it is the role that the church played as a school that sets it apart. After the start of the Civil War large numbers of black refugees from the South migrated to the District of Columbia. Between 1860 and 1863 the local black population increased by over two thirds; an increase which could not be ignored. Miss Emma V. Brown, a prominent African-American, was employed by the District Government to teach and on March 1, 1864 the first public, government-sponsored school for black children in Washington, D.C. was established and housed at Ebenezer.

Please take time to look around at the plaques and don’t miss the replica on Fourth Street.

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