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National Park Service Civil War Defenses of Washington sites are administered by three different national parks. Find the site you are interested in and contact the appropriate park.
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Did You Know?
As early as the 1820s, free African Americans settled in a community called Vinegar Hill, an area now known as Brightwood. During the Civil War, Fort Stevens was built within Vinegar Hill boundaries and repulsed the only Confederate attack on the District of Columbia.