Helen Atkins, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Valentine's Day 2008, arrived in Washington with her widowed father during World War I. She moved to Capitol Hill after her 1935 marriage and remained until recent years.

Frances Barnes's family stretches back generations in Washington, DC; so far that she isn't exactly sure when they first arrived.

Georgiana Barnes married and moved to Capitol Hill, or Southeast Washington as it was called then, on Christmas Day 1933.

Almost every Beverly family story involves their house -- the Big House at 308 Independence Avenue SE, on a lot purchased by their grandmother, daughter of former slaves, in 1886.

Capitol Hill native Rosetta Brooks has taught ballet to two generations of dancers at St. Mark's Church.

The family of Francis Campbell, a Capitol Hill native, has been here since the 1920s. He was interviewed when he received the 2013 Community Achievement Award.

Carl Cole was born in Southwest Washington but his ties to Capitol Hill are extensive.

Mary Colston lived in the same two-story rowhouse in the 500 block of Second Street NE from 1947 until 2002. 

John Ford, born on Capitol Hill in 1924, grew up in a large family at 328 Ninth Street SE and lived and worked most of his life on Capitol Hill. 

Isaac Fulwood, Jr. served Washington, DC, as Police Chief from 1989 to 1992, but long before that, his character was formed by the neighborhood near Kentucky Avenue SE that fostered a sense of community during his childhood. 

Dorothy Garris’s life on Capitol Hill involves her family, her teaching career, and the New United Baptist Church, founded by her late husband, the Reverend Grant Garris.

One of five children, Josephine Green was born near the Navy Yard in 1931. After working at the General Accounting Office and the Geological Survey, she bought her own home near D and 11th Streets NE in the 1970s.

When Rosetta Hall Hamm was born, her family was living near South Capitol and D Streets SE. They later moved to E Street SE, so Rosetta has spent almost her entire life on the Hill.

Carol Mills Harris recalls Capitol Hill as her childhood home from 1933-1944, when all the Mall and the cultural events there were her classroom and playground.

Siblings Charles Harris and Mary Winifred "Winnie" Harris Freeman were born and grew up in a house on Ninth Street SE that had been in their family for nearly 100 years at the time of their August 2005, interview with Mary Ann Wyrsch. 

At the time of this 2001 interview, Eva and Walter Haynes still lived in the house on South Carolina Avenue purchased by her parents in 1949. 

Steve Johnson’s pictures are likely to be found in the family albums of countless Capitol Hill families, possibly balancing two or three children on his shoulders at once during his more than 40 years teaching Chinese gymnastics at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW).

Madonna McCullers moved to the Hill in 1950, where she balanced keeping house for her family with opening and operating her own beauty shop on Massachusetts Avenue.

Hattie McLaurin, the granddaughter of a midwife, moved from a North Carolina farm to Washington in 1956, and has lived and worked on Capitol Hill for most of the time since.

Cornelia "Connie" Mitchell, a lifelong Washington resident, remembers seeing presidential inaugural parades as far back as Woodrow Wilson’s. 

Annie Bell Nelson and her husband Joseph purchased their house in the 600 block of South Carolina Avenue SE in 1948.

James Perry is the band director of the Eastern High School Marching Band, AKA the “Blue and White Marching Machine” and “The Pride of Capitol Hill.”

Maurine came to Washington as a "government girl" during World War II and later ran a welding business after her husband’s early death. She describes the city with the eyes of a businesswoman, artist, and teacher.

Alexander Pope, Jr. was born in 1925 to parents who ran a funeral business in the Southeast part of Capitol Hill; the business, now operated by his son Alex Pope III, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020.

Evelyn Price moved from southern Virginia to Washington, DC, in 1942, and met her husband here. 

Curtis “Doc” Robinson served as a Tuskegee Airman in World War II and returned after the war to Washington, DC.

Anwar Saleem was a teenager when the 1968 riots devastated the thriving and diverse commercial and social hub of H Street NE.

The Seafarers Yacht Club is believed to be the oldest active African American yacht club in the United States.

Shirley Womack grew up on Heckman Street SE, which was renamed Duddington Place when the restoration movement began on Capitol Hill. 

The houses where Esther Woodfolk and her siblings grew up were torn down when the Southeast-Southwest Freeway was built, but she remembers her Depression-era neighborhood well.