Streetcars in Washington, D.C. and Maryland Streetcars in Washington, D.C. and Maryland Streetcars and interurbans operated in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., between 1890 and 1962. Lines in Maryland were established as separate legal entities, but eventually they were all owned or leased by DC Transit (see Streetcars in Washington, D.C.). Unlike the Virginia lines, the Washington and Maryland lines were scheduled as a single system. Most of the streetcars were built with grand plans in mind, but none succeeded financially. A combination of the rise of the automobile, various economic downturns and bustitution eventually spelled the end of streetcars in southern Maryland. The Rock
Humanities DC Humanities DC Humanities DC (formerly known as the Humanities Council of Washington, DC) is a local, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities based in Washington, DC. Humanities DC was founded in 1980 to fund and produce public humanities programming in the District of Columbia. It is one of 56 state humanities councils founded in the wake of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. The Humanities DC office is located at 925 U Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Founded in 1980 as the D.C. Community Humanities Council, Humanities DC funded several high-profile documentary