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Swampoodle is an old name used to describe a small section of the H Street neighborhood in Northeast Washington, DC. The area was first settled in the 1850s by immigrants fleeing the Irish potato famine. A geographic approximation of its borders would be K Street to the north, G Street to the south, 1st Street NW to the west, and 2nd Street NE to the east. Through the center of it, just east of North Capitol Street, ran the principal branch of Tiber Creek, creating the low swampy ground from which the area took its name.

A few years ago developers created the North of Massachusetts Avenue Business Improvement District, or NOMA and have tried to rebrand the neighborhood to something different.

When making the map I concluded that at the time of the aerial photography’s acquisition, it was still called Swampoodle and not NOMA. The same goes for Google Maps, which shows an even older glimpse (from spring 2002) of the changing neighborhood.

Personally, I think the name Swampoodle gives the area character in name. In contemporary identity, the area is mostly a bunch of warehouses and parking lots that are about to be developed, so I look forward to seeing a Swampoodle map in 10 years. It will look drastically different and I just hope its not called some focus group-approved abbreviation of a geographic region.

View the Google Map of the Swampoodle neighborhood in Ward 6 of Washington, DC.

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Related Ward 6 Entries:

• A Navy Yard Perspective
• Swampoodle Quilt #3
• Swampoodle Quilt #2
• Swampoodle Quilt
• 2008 Washington, DC Area Calendar
• RFK Quilt #3
• Eastern Market Quilt #3
• Capitol Hill Mandala, draft #2
• Capitol Hill Mandala, first draft
• The U.S. Capitol is Off-Limits to the Public: An Exploration of Censorship's Perimeter
• RFK Quilt #2
• RFK Quilt
• Lincoln Park Quilt #2
• Lincoln Park Quilt
• Eastern Market Quilt #2
• Eastern Market Quilt

Related Artomatic Entries:

• [Found Maps] License Plate Maps of DC & Maryland at Artomatic 2009
• My Brash poem from Artomatic 2009
• YouTube Video: "A Fly on the Wall at Artomatic"
• I am mentioned in today's Washington Post article "Artomatic '09: Survival Tips From an Expert"
• My Artomatic 2009 Opening Night Exhibit Dissected on Flickr
• A Navy Yard Perspective
• My maps on display at Artomatic 2009
• Quart Bag: A Community Art Show at the Civilian Art Projects
• My Brash Poem from Artomatic 2008
• My Artomatic 2008 Opening Night Exhibit Dissected on Flickr
• My Artomatic 2008 Top 100 by Floor
• 24 on 14th - One Long Day on 14th by Graeme King
• A sampling of Artomatic 2008 YouTube Videos
• Tag Galaxy [featuring Artomatic 2008 photos]
• Swampoodle Quilt #3
• Swampoodle Quilt #2
• Exhibit Fly-Through in Reverse Slow-Motion @ Artomatic 2008
• Artomatic 2008 Opening Night
• SloMo the Statehood Snail visits Swampoodle
• the Artomatic Artist Catalog [PWND] - with updates
• Swampoodle Quilt
• What the Artomatic 2008 venue looked like in March of 2005
• The Base Map Installation @ Artomatic
• The first Artomatic prints have arrived
• ARTOMATIC - 2008 is here and I will be participating for the first time