Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., 2010
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. 2010. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010642052/. (Accessed September 27, 2016.)
Eastern Market (and Interiors): Eastern Market is the longest-running remnant of the old market system, which supplied DC residents with produce, meat, and more in the decades before grocery store chains.
Although Capitol Hill had hosted a neighborhood market for decades, established by a presidential proclamation by Thomas Jefferson in the early 1800s, it wasn’t until 1873 that a dedicated building…