Mount Pleasant (Washington, D.C.)

Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, DC It lies between the Rock Creek Park in the north and west; Harvard Street NW and the Adams Morgan neighborhood to the south, 16th Street NW and the Columbia Heights neighborhood in the east. In Mount Pleasant about 10,000 people live.

History

1727 gave the governor of the then colony of Maryland, Charles Calvert, the lands that now make up the Washington district of Mount Pleasant, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Pleasant Plains, James Holmead. His son Anthony named the area in 1750 Pleasant Plains. After the Congress had in 1791 the District of Columbia created, was Pleasant Plains section of the park in the new district of Washington County, DC During the American Civil War, the highest part of Pleasant Plains was renamed the Mount Pleasant Village.

Mount Pleasant, the basis of the then existing segregation in the United States, like all living quarters in Washington, DC was racially segregated until the 60s was a residential area of ​​the upper white middle class. This began in the 60s in Washington like everywhere else in the United States to migrate from inner-city areas to the suburbs. The riots in Washington in 1968 reinforced this trend. At the same time attracted immigrants from Latin America to Mount Pleasant, many from El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, the district became a center of Latinos in Washington. Shops that mainly refer to a Latin American clientele, today characterize in particular the main street of the neighborhood, the Mount Pleasant Street.

Since the late 80's is in Mount Pleasant at first a slow, from the late 90s then observe increasingly clear gentrification.