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A new effort seeks to secure official recognition for the historic significance of Barry Farm, a public housing complex in Southeast D.C. The neighborhood's origins date to 1867, when the Freedman's Bureau established it as a place where freed slaves could own houses and run small businesses. In 1942, public housing was built on the land ...

The site of Barry Farm Dwellings, from its establishment as a freedmen's village in 1867, through its development as public housing, tells a story of housing struggles for African Americans for over 150 years. ... along with the necessary building materials for the construction of a modest house to newly freed persons for prices ranging from ...

The Barry Farm neighborhood is located off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, west of historic Anacostia in Washington, D.C. and was originally established in 1867 as the first African-American homeownership community in Washington, D.C. for newly freed slaves. Over time, the original 375 acre site dwindled in size and in 1943 The National ...