In 1836, John Little an Irish immigrant born in 1805, bought 56 acres in what is now the Kalorama Triangle and Washington Heights neighborhoods in Washington, DC from brothers Christian and Matthew Hines. The Hines brothers had tried unsuccessfully to establish a silkworm farm on the land. They built a modest one-and-a-half-story, twenty-five-square-foot house at the corner of Columbia and Belmont Roads that was probably meant to the home for the farm’s worm keeper. It is now the site of Norwood apartment building at 1868 Columbia Road, NW.
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John Little: Irish Immigrant, Butcher, and…
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In 1836, John Little an Irish immigrant born in 1805, bought 56 acres in what is now the Kalorama Triangle and Washington Heights neighborhoods in Washington, DC from brothers Christian and Matthew Hines. The Hines brothers had tried unsuccessfully to establish a silkworm farm on the land. They built a modest one-and-a-half-story, twenty-five-square-foot house at the corner of Columbia and Belmont Roads that was probably meant to the home for the farm’s worm keeper. It is now the site of Norwood apartment building at 1868 Columbia Road, NW.