What Once Was: News for the community: Origins of Washington’s neighborhood newspaper tradition

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George W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbons. Prominent men of West Virginia. Wheeling WV, W.L. Callin, 1890.

Fred A. Emery. “Washington Newspapers.”  Records of the Columbia Historical Society. Vol. 37/38, (1937), pp. 41-72

Matthew B. Gilmore and Michael R. Harrison. “A Catalog of Suburban Subdivisions of the District of Columbia, 1854-1902.”  Washington History, Vol. 14, No. 2, Commemorating the Centennial of the McMillan Plan, Part II (Fall/Winter, 2002/2003), pp. 26-55.

Harvard College. Class of 1864. Secretary’s Report: no. 5, June, 1874-June, 1881. Boston, Harvard College, 1881.

Ed Hatcher. “Washington’s Nineteenth-Century Citizens’ Associations and the Senate Park Commission Plan.” Washington History, Vol. 14, No. 2, Commemorating the Centennial of the McMillan Plan, Part II (Fall/Winter, 2002/2003), pp. 70-95.

Portia James http://cdi.anacostia.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Portia-James-EOR-Article.pdf

Diana Kohn. “Reporting the News.” [Takoma Park] http://www.historictakoma.org/ReportingTheNews.htm

Diana Kohn. “TAKOMA ARCHIVES: Capturing a community in print.” http://tpssvoice.com/2012/04/17/takoma-archives-capturing-a-community-in-print/

Floyd Goshorn. Goshorn Family History.  http://goshornhistory.org/downloads/goshorn_history.htm

Edwin Melville Williams. “The Press, 1789-1928” in Washington Past and Present, a History. John Clagett Proctor, ed. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing, 1930.