Phillip Fenwick Springhouse.jpg

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Fenwick Farm Springhouse on Lowell Elementary School Campus, courtesy of the DC Historic Preservation Office. Included in their report, “Rural Remnants of Washington County: An Architectural Survey of Washington’s Historic Farms and Estates.” September 2013. https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Farm%20Estates_0.pdf.

This file appears in: Philip Fenwick Plantation Site: Capital City Slavery Tour

By The DC Historic Sites team
In 1855, Philip Fenwick is listed in assessment records as the owner of 145 acres in Northwest Washington and seven unidentified enslaved persons.[1] Maps indicate a variety of buildings on the former…