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HCCDC: Chevy Chase DC at 250: When the Civil War Came to Town

  • March 26, 2026
  • 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Virtual

 “The Civil War Comes to Town,” is the second in a four-part webinar series hosted by HCCDC to reflect on our community’s role in the founding and development of the nation over the past 250 years. This episode, on Zoom from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, will explore Civil War history on the ground beneath our homes today.

 Register for the free March 26 evening webinar here. 

Guest speakers include Gary Thompson, a former ANC Commissioner and longtime Chevy Chase DC resident who is an expert on Civil War fortifications that once ringed the nation’s capital, and Civil War re-enactor and interpreter Marquett Milton.

 The time-travel talk, to be moderated by anthropologist Mark Auslander of American University and hosted by HCCDC’s Chas Cadwell, will take us back to a time when rolling acres of tobacco fields planted in the 1700s had given way to grains by the early 1800s. The forests around them were then denuded by mid-century to protect Washington, DC, from Confederate attack via Maryland. 

Presented by Historic Chevy Chase DC



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