Notable Places in Brightwood

13th & Quackenbos St NW

The restored Civil War earthwork where Union troops repelled Jubal Early's attack on July 11–12, 1864, and President Lincoln came under fire.

6625 Georgia Ave NW

Established in 1864, one of the nation's smallest national cemeteries, holding the Union soldiers killed at Fort Stevens.

1375 Missouri Ave NW

Tied to a school founded in 1864 for the children of formerly enslaved families; the surviving building (1911–1912) is on the National Register.

6100 Georgia Ave NW

A congregation founded in 1832 that served as a hospital and barracks during the Civil War.

Georgia Ave & Aspen St NW

The redeveloped former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus (opened 1909, closed 2011), now a 66-acre mixed-use community.