Escape Allée (1838)

Historical marker location:

1922 Frederick Douglass Court Southeast, Douglass, District of Columbia

( Marker is on Frederick Douglass Court Southeast north of Bruce Place Southeast, on the right when traveling north.)

Douglass Community Center.

The District was originally much larger: The District of Columbia originally included land from both Maryland and Virginia, but in 1846, the portion of the District that had been taken from Virginia was returned to the state.