Dupont Park is a residential neighborhood located in southeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Fort Dupont Park to the north, Pennsylvania Avenue SE to the south, Branch Avenue to the west, and Fort Davis Park to the east. The neighborhood civic association uses Fairlawn Avenue and the Anacostia Freeway as the western boundary of the neighborhood.
22-466: Dupont Park is nestled into the parkland of Fort Davis and Fort Dupont Parks , the grounds of two Civil War -era forts that were constructed for the defense of Washington. The year-round Fort Dupont Ice Arena used for ice-skating and hockey is also located in this area. Dupont Park is a distinct neighborhood from the nearby Fort Dupont , although both border the park and take their name from it. Neither should Dupont Park be confused with Dupont Circle ,
44-518: A more commercial neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant. 38°52′24″N 76°57′46″W / 38.8732°N 76.9629°W / 38.8732; -76.9629 This article about a location in Washington, D.C. , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fort Dupont Park Fort Dupont Park is a 376-acre (1.52 km ) wooded park under the management of
66-690: A study that proposed that the Fort Drive be renamed the Fort Park System and the scenic drive concept be abandoned in favor of a Greenway trail connecting the forts. In 1968, the National Park Service (NPS) which had taken jurisdiction over the parks in 1933, issued a master plan for the parks that included the Fort Circle Trail. The Fort Circle Trail was originally envisioned as a 32 mile long network of trails around
88-636: Is a popular place for picnics, nature walks, indoor ice skating, mountain bike riding, gardening, environmental education, music, skating, sports, and ranger-led Civil War programs. The park was purchased by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission (predecessor of the National Capital Planning Commission) authorized by the Capper-Cramton Act provided along with the other circle parks in
110-463: The 130th Pennsylvania Infantry were among the troops that performed garrison duty here during the war. An interesting incident of history is that the body of troops which afterwards became famous as the "Iron Brigade" was originated at this fort in the summer of 1861, and was composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th and 7th Wisconsin Regiments. The 24th Michigan was added to the brigade soon after
132-435: The 152nd New York worked on the entrenchments, which are still in a very good state of preservation. The fort was not completed until the fall of 1862. It is a relatively undisturbed fort and was named in honor of a native of Massachusetts , Randolph B. Marcy , a distinguished soldier, father-in-law and chief of staff to General George B. McClellan . Detachments of the 4th New York and 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery and
154-510: The Battle of South Mountain . These units remained together until the close of the war. At the end of the Civil War in 1865, the system of fortifications (now known as Fort Circle Parks ) which surrounded Washington, D.C. were dismantled. The lumber and other materials were sold at auctions and the land returned to pre-war owners. The body of former deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster
176-816: The George Washington Memorial Parkway in Fairfax County, Virginia . Fort Marcy is approximately 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) south of the Potomac River on the south side of the Chain Bridge Road leading from Chain Bridge to Langley and McLean, Virginia . By car it can only be reached from the northbound lanes of the George Washington Parkway. The hill on which the fort is located
198-564: The National Park Service located in Washington, DC . The name of the park comes from the old Civil War earthwork fort that lies within the park. The fort was one of several designed to defend Washington from a Confederate attack during the Civil War. There are few remains of the actual fortifications. It is one of Washington's largest parks and protects an important sub-watershed of the Anacostia River . The park
220-475: The 1930s and '40s. Fort Dupont Park is adjacent to a series of other national and DC parks. Commonly people refer to all of them together as Fort Dupont. These are the adjacent parks: Fort Dupont has a 40-year history of offering a summer concert series. Many famous musicians and bands in the Washington, D.C., area have played this venue. The unpaved Fort Circle Hiker-Biker Trail is the primary trail in
242-687: The Fort Circle Parks, and ends at the north end of Marvin Gaye Park at Hunt Place NE. On the north end it connects to the Marvin Gaye Trail. The 1902 McMillan Plan envisioned connecting the circle forts with a road called Fort Circle Drive. The New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps completed a section of the Fort Circle Drive at Fort Dupont, south toward Good Hope Road. Another section was completed near Fort Reno by
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#1732793122961264-689: The Fort Circle Trails in the Fort Dupont area in 1967 as part of its 1968 budget. The first 3,000 feet (910 m) of trail, from Pennsylvania Ave to Ridge Road, was opened on November 10, 1968. The complete east of the river section, from the Fort Rickets area to north of Fort Mahan was dedicated as a national recreation trail, along with the Fort DeRussy section, by Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton in 1971. At that point
286-891: The Fort Circle but only three sections of the trail were built and two of them are no longer labeled as such. The first section was a four mile section of the C&;O Canal towpath from the Foundry Tunnel to Chain Bridge built in 1967 that was to connect Fort Marcy in Virginia with Battery Kemble Park in DC. The second section was a short section in Rock Creek Park along the north side of Military Road – and past Fort DeRussy – that opened in 1968. The Park service first sought funding for 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7.2 km) of
308-637: The Works Progress Administration. Military Drive through Rock Creek - considered a part of the Fort Circle Drive at the time - was completed in the 1950s. No further progress on the Drive was completed, wand by 1962 the idea was abandoned due to changes in the urban environment, right-of-way limitations and traffic on the cross streets. In 1965, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) released
330-486: The city which were fired for several hours. The line of cannon salutes running round and round the other always proceeding in the same direction, so that it went round and round the circuit 20 to 30 miles". Fort Marcy (Virginia) Fort Marcy was a Union fortification protecting Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War . Its remains are now administered by the National Park Service as part of
352-558: The park, but there are various side spur trails throughout the parks, totaling about 10 miles (16 km). The Fort Circle is a 7 mile trail that runs north from the Anacostia Community Museum through the six adjacent Fort Circle Parks (Fort Ricketts Park, Fort Stanton Park, Fort Davis Park, Fort Dupont Park, Fort Chaplin Park and Fort Mahan Park) and several smaller sections of parkland that belong to NPS as part of
374-487: The topography was too difficult (requiring bridges, switchbacks and tunnels) and because it would result in a loss of wildness. A 2010 report by the NCPC, NPS and DC called for a similar greenway connection between the forts. None of those plan been implemented. The park has three picnic areas that are able to reserved for group use. Otherwise, the picnic tables are available through a first come first use basis. Fort Dupont
396-417: The trail had already been descoped to 23 miles. The 1968 Fort Circle Parks Master Plan was approved in 1974, but there was no further work on the project. In 2004, NPS updated its management plan for the parks and chose to replace the completed trail with a guided walking route between them. The bicycle trail was dropped because it would too significantly change the narrow trails that it went through, because
418-472: Was an artillery installation defending the eastern approaches of Washington. During the war the following pieces were at the fort: Fort Dupont never fired guns in hostile action; however, after the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, according to John Longyear, "the Chain of forts around the city and the batteries of field artillery between, made a ring of cannons around
440-479: Was an earthwork fort built in 1861 as part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington , completed in spring 1862, and in use till 1865 when it was abandoned. The land was owned by Micheal Canton prior to the war and returned to him afterward. The fort was a hexagon with 100-foot-long (30 m) sides; inside was a flag pole, deep well, officer quarters, and barracks, while outside was a guard house. The fort
462-527: Was called Fort Baldy Smith, after General William Farrar Smith , the troops of whose division began construction of the work. His division crossed Chain Bridge on the night of September 24, 1861, and immediately commenced construction of Fort Marcy and Fort Ethan Allen . The 79th New York Highlanders , the 141st Pennsylvania and the Iron Brigade also helped complete the work in the fall of 1862. A force of about 500 contrabands were also employed and
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#1732793122961484-399: Was known as Prospect Hill. It is near the location where the famous but bloodless duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph was fought in 1826. The perimeter of the fort is 338 feet (103 m). When completed, the fort mounted 18 guns, a 10-inch (25 cm) mortar and two 24-pound (10 kg) Coehorn mortars . The batteries were aimed toward the south and west. Originally the fort
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