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ID: 4731 ~ Source: Photograph by Shae Corey ~ Date: September 2021

This file appears in: Latino Heritage Tour: Businesses in El Barrio: Mount Pleasant Street, 18th Street, and Columbia Road’s layered histories involve Hispanic-owned businesses, cultural expression, and community identity.

Latino Heritage Tour: Businesses in El Barrio: Mount Pleasant Street, 18th Street, and Columbia Road’s layered histories involve Hispanic-owned businesses, cultural expression, and community identity.

By The DC Historic Sites team

“Mt. Pleasant was the place to go on the weekends if you worked, for example. I remember Mt. Pleasant and Columbia Road were the corridor to walk. A lot of folks would come out. We used to think it…