Benning Heights is a residential neighborhood located in

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It is bounded by East Capitol Street to the south, Brooks Street NE to the north, 44th Street NE and Benning Road NE to the west, and Division Avenue NE to the east. It is served by the Benning Road Metro Rail station on the Blue Line and Silver Line of the

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(Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority/WMATA). Politically, Benning Heights is in Ward 7.

History

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within the neighborhood's boundaries "are the federal parks named for the former Civil War forts of Fort Circle and Fort Chaplin.

Fort Dupont Park Fort Dupont Park is a wooded park under the management of the National Park Service located in Washington, DC. The name of the park comes from the old Civil War earthwork fort that lies within the park. The fort was one of several designed to ...

, also a former Civil War fortification, creates the long south-western border of the neighborhood along Ridge Road. The neighborhood takes its name from early farmer and entrepreneur William Benning who owned most of the land in the neighborhood. Near the Benning Road boundary is historic

Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The cemetery contains approximately 36,000 burials, nearly all of them African Americans. The cemetery was added to the National ...

, a much-neglected, hilly burial ground for black and white Washington residents dating from 1895. Among prominent people buried there is Mississippi senator Branche K. Bruce, an African-American who made his home in the Shaw neighborhood."

References

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