Fort Lincoln

Worth seeing in and around Fort Lincoln

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Gallaudet University

   Gallaudet University is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children.

   3.6 km · American university providing education for deaf and hard of hearing students · Wikipedia
2. 02
   The Catholic University of America

   The Catholic University of America is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a seminary – and the only institution of higher education founded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

   3.9 km · private Catholic University in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
3. 03
   National Bonsai Foundation

   The National Bonsai Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. NBF also helps the United States National Arboretum showcase the arts of bonsai and penjing to the general public.

   1.5 km · nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens

   Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.

   1.6 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Fort Bunker Hill

   Fort Bunker Hill was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army. From west to east, the forts were: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln.

   3.1 km · historical fort in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Gallaudet Memorial

   The Thomas Gallaudet Memorial is a sculpture by Daniel Chester French located on the campus of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., United States. The 1889 statue depicts Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sitting in a chair and Alice Cogswell standing at his side.

   3.8 km · statue commemorating Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Mount Olivet Cemetery

   Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 1300 Bladensburg Road, NE in Washington, D.C. It is maintained by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The largest Catholic burial ground in the District of Columbia, it was one of the first in the city to be racially integrated.

   2.3 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Ethel Kennedy Bridge

   The Ethel Kennedy Bridge is a beam bridge built in 2004 that carries Benning Road over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It is an eight-lane bridge with pedestrian lanes on both sides. A separate Washington Metro bridge carrying the Blue, Orange and Silver lines crosses over the bridge near its western terminus, and parallels the bridge on the north.

   2.9 km · bridge in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Columbian Harmony Cemetery

   Columbian Harmony Cemetery was an African-American cemetery that formerly existed at 9th Street NE and Rhode Island Avenue NE in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Constructed in 1859, it was the successor to the smaller Harmoneon Cemetery in downtown Washington.

   3.2 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Hecht Company Warehouse

    The Hecht Company Warehouse in Washington, D.C. is a Streamline Moderne style building. Designed by engineer Gilbert V. Steel of the New York engineering firm Abbott and Merkt, and prominently located on New York Avenue in Ivy City, it served as the central warehouse for The Hecht Company from its construction in 1937 and expansion in 1948.

    2.6 km · building in Washington, D.C., United States of America · Wikipedia

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Getting to Fort Lincoln

Airports

Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 11 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 38 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 43 km

Stations

Benning Road, 3.9 km · Brookland–CUA, 3.5 km · Deanwood, 2.4 km · Minnesota Avenue, 2.8 km · West Hyattsville, 3.8 km

• Dulles → Fort Lincoln

  43 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · $4–6
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• Richmond → Fort Lincoln

  158 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $14–20
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• Philadelphia → Fort Lincoln

  192 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · $17–23
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