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Sketch o f Camp Tennelly by Oregon Wilson. Camp of 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, October 1861. View probably looking south from the top of Fort Reno toward Chesapeake Street and Wilson High School grounds. (Helm, p. 46)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Washingtoniana Collection, DC Public Libraries

year: 1861
 

 
Boschke's Topograhic map of DC 1861 from field inspection of 1857-58 (Helm, p. 4)
 

 
Part of Boschke's Topographic Map of DC, from 1857-8 field inspection. (Helm, p. 24) Shows property owners Giles Dyer whose land was "borrowed" for Fort Reno, Nathan Loughboro and his son, A. H. Loughboro, who owned Grasslands, Mrs. A. Lyles, who owned The Rest, and H. Blunt who owned Dunblane.
 

 
Major General Jesse Lee Reno. Fort Pennsylvania in Tenleytown was renamed for him. Also named for him, the Jesse Reno School on Howard Street in Tenleytown, and the city of Reno, NV, (Helm, p. 58)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Washingtoniana Collection, DC Public Libraries

year: 1862
 

 
Sketch of 2 ft. long field howitzer, confiscated by soldiers from 9th and 10th Regiments, Rhode Island volunteers, from Southern sympathizer. Regiment was encamped near Eldbrooke Church in Tenleytown. Gun was turned over the Rhode Island Historical Society. (Helm, p. 56)
 

 
Zouaves with cannon at Fort Gaines. Fort Gaines razed to allow extension of Massachusetts Avenue west of Ward Circle. (Helm, p. 49)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: American University Archives

year: 1864
 

 
Plat of Reno City (Fort Reno subdivision). Land owned before Civil War by Giles Dyer - returned to him after war. Reno City was bounded by Belt (formerly Brookville) Road, Fessenden Street, Howard Street (which runs along the east side of Alice Deale Junior High School), and Chesapeake Street. (Helm, p. 66) Subdivision homes were razed over a period of years in the first half of the 20th century to provide space for reservoir, water towers and schools.
 

 
 

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