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 Old City Capitol Hill Neighborhood Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In 1904 100 houses located in Swampoodle were condemned for the construction of Union Station.
Swampoodle existed from 1850- 1870's between H Street to the north, G Street to the south, North Capitol Street to the east and 3rd Street "to the east.
Jackson Alley was a classic example of a notorious Negro shanty in the heart of Swampoodle.
oldcitycapitolhill.org /history_interviews_09.php   (474 words)

  
 Official Series Description - SWAMPOODLE Series
TYPICAL PEDON: Swampoodle loam - on a gently sloping concave footslope in an improved pasture.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Swampoodle soils are on gently sloping concave uplands, in saddles, and on footslopes along intermittent drainageways.
Swampoodle soils were mapped partly as Belvoir and partly as Chester soils in the previous soil survey of Loudoun County.
ortho.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov /osd/dat/S/SWAMPOODLE.html   (855 words)

  
 Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Random Game Callback, May 6, 1887
There wasn't much scoring at Washington's Swampoodle Grounds, but there was plenty of controversy and a near riot as the Philadelphia Phillies edged the Washington Senators, 2-1, before a crowd estimated at 1,500.
Charlie Ferguson, the man who hit the double that set everybody aflame, would pass away in Philadelphia in less than a year on April 29, 1888 of some form of typhoid fever or malaria at age 25.
I think that as a tribute to the city's baseball heritage, the new park they're building in Washington should be called Swampoodle Grounds.
griddle.baseballtoaster.com /archives/357189.html   (824 words)

  
 The Daltaí Boards: "Swampoodle"?
I have put together a web site about my search for a ball park known as "Swampoodle Grounds" (though my research revealed that the team preferred to call it "Capitol Park").
I was wondering if anyone here could shed some light on the term "Swampoodle", as I also discovered that a different ballpark, Shibe Park (later called Connie Mack Stadium), was built adjacent to a section of Philadelphia also known as the "Swampoodle" neighborhood.
The area known as Swampoodle in Philadelphia which would be in the vicinity of 25th and Lehigh near the old Shibe Park was at one time an area of Irish immigrant concentration.
www.daltai.com /discus/messages/12465/11508.html?1047395392   (339 words)

  
 Center City Commuter Connection - Line Operations
So assuming Swampoodle, Vuchic stacked up the lines by ridership and numbered them clockwise according to their PRR endpoints.
But since Swampoodle wasn't even at the construction stage when the tunnel opened, an interim operating plan and line pairing scheme had to be implemented.
Acknowledging the permanence of the Media-West Trenton pairing and the fact that Swampoodle wasn't going to be built was the first change to the tunnel operating plan.
www.pennways.com /Commuter_Tunnel_Line_Ops.html   (1477 words)

  
 Rough road for skaters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In Harmony, parks board member Diane Smith said the borough is also operating on a small budget, but in 2003 it found a way to give skateboarders something.
A 60- by 90-foot multipurpose concrete deck was built in Swampoodle Park with skateboarding as one of its intended uses.
"The reality is that Swampoodle Park is in the middle of a residential area and is more like a neighborhood park as opposed to a community park," she said.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05114/492165.stm   (589 words)

  
 BallWonk: Olde Time Base-Balle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Loyal and historiographic reader TMK writes to share an early draft of a chapter from his PhD thesis on the Chicago Cubs (The Holy in the Ivy: The Cubbies and the Creation of the Ballpark as Sacred Space).
Looking back to the days when Washingtonians played ball at Swampoodle Grounds, where Union Station now stands, TMK investigated the last time the Cubs played in Washington.
Swampoodle Grounds, in case you're wondering, was named for the Irish shanty neighborhood of Swampoodle, in which it stood.
www.ball-wonk.com /archives/000313.html   (745 words)

  
 Swampoodle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swampoodle is a name for the neighborhood in the area around Union Station (Washington, D.C.) in Washington, D.C. This area was previously the home to a thriving Irish community.
The current boundaries of Swampoodle are, roughly, 2nd Street NW to the west, Massachusetts Avenue to the north, and Louisiana Avenue NE and the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to the southeast.
This article about a geographical location in Washington, D.C. is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swampoodle   (202 words)

  
 Gonzaga College High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enrollment declined owing to the distance of the new neighbourhood from the centre, but the Jesuits persevered and by the end of the century the school was once again flourishing.
Gonzaga benefited greatly from the fact that the row houses built in Swampoodle were largely occupied by Irish Catholics from the late 19th century on.
Although Gonzaga always drew students from other parts of the city as well, the departure of the Swampoodle Irish for the suburbs in the mid-20th century and more especially their replacement by poorer non-Catholics, brought on another period of difficulties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gonzaga_College_High_School   (1848 words)

  
 staffwriters
Just Down from Swampoodle Road," where Corene Johnston provides some recipes for freelance writers on the go.
Reporters used the symbol -30- at the end of their typewritten copy to indicate to editors that they have reached the last word.
Editor's Note: With her poet husband, John Haag, Corene Johnston lives just down from Swampoodle Road, in the Pennsylvania Appalachians, where she molly-cuddles goats, cats, dogs, wildlife and the occasional human.
www.staffwriters.com /newsletter-mar00.cfm   (2974 words)

  
 Rocky Bumps the book - An Italian-American Philadelphia Story
My story begins in North Philly, in a neighborhood known as Swampoodle.
Swampoodle is centered mostly around the corner of Judson Street and Indiana Avenue and the streets immediately surrounding.
That's where I grew up — on the corner that was the focal point of the neighborhood.
www.judsonjournal.com /intro.html   (527 words)

  
 staffwriters
In this issue of -30-, our feature story looks at the best way to step up to the plate and succeed as a sports writer, featuring interviews with sports reporters Dan Pompei and Mark Herrmann.
Corene Johnson will take us back to Swampoodle Road to see how her ailing cat may have led to a new freelance assignment.
Finally, we'll be introduced to "Melanie's Laws" as Melanie Hauser presents a list of inevitable writer distractions that would make even Mr.
www.staffwriters.com /30.cfm   (239 words)

  
 Philadelphia Daily News | 08/17/2006 | Briefly... CITY/REGION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He was treated and released from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
A Swampoodle man died Tuesday night after he lost control of his speeding all-terrain vehicle and it struck an oncoming car in Brewerytown.
Lawrence Berney, 27, of Mayfield Street near 20th, died at Hahnemann University Hospital at 9:26 p.m., about 15 minutes after the wreck on 33rd Street near Girard Avenue, police said.
www.philly.com /mld/philly/news/local/15292569.htm   (374 words)

  
 Parks Board
The Harmony Parks Board is responsible for the borough's three municipal parks.
Those three parks are the Wood Street Park, a passive green space along the Connoquenessing Creek, Swampoodle Park, a multi-purpose park and play area in the Swampoodle section of Harmony, and the Old Schoolhouse playground behind the Borough Building.The Parks Board meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month in the Borough Building meeting room.
Wood Street Park is a passive park along the Connoquenessing.  It has benches and attractive landscaping.  A large park of the decorations and landscaping in this park were a result of Eagle Projects and High School Senior Projects.
www.harmony-pa.us /departments.jsp?pageId=0690200091781075313289332   (168 words)

  
 Forever Gonzaga Newsletter
We cheered not simply to be nice to a grand old alum, but because between the lines of Larry's simple declaration resonated the themes of roots, permanence and adherence to core values.
We cheered because on that night as the Federal's City's oldest school celebrated the rebirth of its educational facilities, we celebrated perhaps more so because those new facilities would remain right there in the heart of Swampoodle.
Larry continued to regale the audience with tales of Gonzaga in the rare old times and the more he spoke the more it seemed that times had not changed at all.
www.gonzaga.org /alumni/forever.html   (712 words)

  
 AllPolitics - Pundits and Prose - Lance Morrow
We did three hours of homework a night and drank too much beer on weekends.
We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle.
Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop).
edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/pundits.prose/morrow/02.26.shtml   (802 words)

  
 19th Century Harmony
In 1874, an addition to the town was laid out on the south and east.
Swampoodle is believed to be an oil drilling term and was given to this area because it was the site of the Harmony ‘oil boom’ of the 1890’s.
Copyright 2004 Harmony, PA The following is a list of meetings and events for Harmony Borough
www.harmony-pa.us /history.jsp?pageId=0690200091781082245214069   (369 words)

  
 Astrodon Rediscovered
O.C. Marsh in 1888 proposed the name Pleurocoelus (Astrodon), for a very small sauropod from the same area measuring under 5 meters in length., which he believed to be the smallest known adult Psauropod.
He based his conclusions on presumably juvenile material excavated from nearby Swampoodle.
However, in 1991, large teeth and an Astrodon femur (estimated at an original length near 2 meters) were discovered at a site adjoining and contiguous with Latchford's property.
www.glue.umd.edu /~gdouglas/articles/astrodon.html   (4146 words)

  
 126 - SWAMP POODLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
First road is Traceydale Road/Swampoodle Road, turn right.
Then turn left onto Swampoodle, cemetery is 3/10 mile.
Notes: On a sign in front of cemetery is a clear plastic folder containing the names of the interred.
centrecountyhistory.org /ccadoptcemetery/c126.htm   (194 words)

  
 TIME.com: Washington at War -- Sep. 1, 1941 -- Page 1
She works in masses of racy and ironic detail, leaves almost nothing out, has no use for filters.
By the open sewers of Swampoodle (an Irish slum), in bivouacs and bordellos as well as at Willard's bar and the President's receptions, Author Leech makes history's dead bones come to life.
Some will read this book for the Hogarthian gusto of its descriptions, humor, writing.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,850722-1,00.html   (569 words)

  
 Borzoi Reader | Catalog | Murder at Union Station by Margaret Truman
Irish Times was one of three establishments within a block of each other catering to those seeking a wee bit o’ Ireland; The Dubliner and Powers Court Restaurant were the other two.
A hundred years ago, when nearby Union Station was on the drawing board, its planned location was on the edge of Swampoodle, an infamous Irish slum, which was said to be the ideal place to turn a dishonest dollar.
A foul swamp had been transformed into a thriving neighborhood anchored by the station.
www.randomhouse.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449007396&view=printexcerpt   (1742 words)

  
 ARichner's Auto Parts.com
We are located at 259 Swampoodle Road Milesburg near State College Pennsylvania.
Not all new car and light truck Front and Rear Bumpers are online at this time.
We ship nationwide and are located at 259 Swampoodle Road Milesburg PA near State College Pennsylvania
www.arichnersautoparts.com /bumpers.htm   (116 words)

  
 Tiber Creek Associates of Capitol Hill, Inc. - History of Tiber Creek
When Washington was founded Jenkins Hill became Capitol Hill and Tiber Creek continued to flow, serving as a considerable challenge to travelers in the nascent capital attempting to go from the Executive Mansion or nearby Georgetown to the Capitol after a rain storm.
The marshy lowlands north and west of the Capitol was called "the swampoodle" and during the end of the 19th century was the sight of an Irish shanty town that was cleared out to make way for the construction of Washington's Union Station.
Originally part of the canal system of the city running along modern-day Constitution Avenue, city engineers eventually decided to put Tiber Creek underground, where it still runs today —
www.tiberdc.com /tc.htm   (239 words)

  
 Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's Official Website and Online Shoppe
The Athletics have rightfully been proclaimed "Philadelphia's Most Successful Sports Franchise".
The Athletics played at Columbia Park at 29th and Columbia in North Philadelphia before opening Shibe Park in April 1909 at 21st and Lehigh Avenue in a section of North Philadelphia called Swampoodle.
The first dynasty was broken up following the 1914 season due to a combination of factors including rising salaries from the rival Federal League and the suspicions of Connie Mack that the 1914 team had " quit" on him in four straight games to the "Miracle Boston Braves" who were underdogs.
www.philadelphiaathletics.org /a2.html   (847 words)

  
 SABR :|| SABR News | Revised and Updated Green Cathedrals Hits Bookstores in Time for the Holidays
Famed arenas such as the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, and
sit side by side with little-known but evocative venues such as Swampoodle Grounds and Sulphur Dell.
Some 150 photographs – nostalgic and current, many of which have never been published in book form – help bring the ballparks to life and make clear that the originality of today’s retro parks has nothing on those of yesteryear.
www.sabr.org /sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,2051,40   (347 words)

  
 Contributors
Other hobbies include reading, video, travel and computing.
Gregory Jordan-Detamore contributed the page on the R4 Swampoodle Connection.
Russell Doucette has worked for Transit since 1979, coincidentally the date being 9/11!
www.stationreporter.net /contributors.htm   (1123 words)

  
 ARichner's Auto Parts.com
We will beat anyone’s retail prices on new radiators and new gas tanks.
All Radiators and Gas Tanks are CAPA certified and fit right the first time.
Not all new radiators and gas tanks are online at this time.
www.arichnersautoparts.com /radiator.htm   (125 words)

  
 Topica Email List Directory
Life in America has become one big docudrama and you can't tell what's
real and what's make believe - Josiah Swampoodle
OUR MAIN PAGE has a series of unique maps and charts that puts Tuesday's
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