Fort Reno

Historical marker location:

Tenleytown, District of Columbia

( Marker can be reached from Chesapeake Street Northwest west of Nebraska Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2019

Rock Creek Park. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

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.