The company that is bringing Ledo Pizza back to College Park in the coming months got its start just two miles up the road. Continue reading →

The Rhode Island Avenue Metro station just down Route 1 in D.C., was once the site of the city’s most prominent African-American cemetery, a forgotten piece of local history. Continue reading →

If you were a Black traveler heading along Route 1 during the segregation era, you had only one option: A little-remembered tourist spot along Lake Artemesia. Continue reading →

More restoration work has been done on the historic music hall on 41st Avenue in North Brentwood, including the addition of a new sign, exterior lighting and a barber’s pole. The site was once frequented by the likes of Duke Ellington and Pearl Bailey. Continue reading →

When a Catholic family decided to start a church just off the Route 1 corridor in the early 1700s, they had to be secretive about it. Continue reading →

The late pastor of a North Brentwood church befriended Martin Luther King and led a group of Freedom Riders in 1961, ultimately getting arrested in Tallahassee, Fla. Continue reading →

From the 1930s to the 1970s, a section of the Route 1 corridor from Mount Rainier to Brentwood was a live country music and rock ‘n’ roll hotspot for the D.C. area with the likes of Patsy Cline, Jimmy Dean, and Roy Buchanan passing through. Continue reading →