Location: Tenth Street and Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Style: Modern Fire
Color Scheme: Red
Condition: Good.
Subject of Plaque: Urban Renewal/How Shaw Got Its name
Draft Text:
How did Shaw get its name?
The Shaw neighborhood’s namesake is Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863), a white US Army officer who led the African American Massachusetts 54th Regiment during the Civil War.
The Shaw name was introduced in the neighborhood in 1928, when McKinley High School (a few blocks away at 7th Street, NW and Rhode Island Avenue, NW), formerly part of the city’s white school system, became a black school named in honor of the Civil War hero.
In 1966, the school’s attendance boundaries were used to define "The Shaw School Urban Renewal Area," and a neighborhood name that had been used informally by residents was put on the map. The plan was adopted in part as a plan to guide reconstruction of the neighborhood after the 1968 riots.
In 1977, a new Shaw Junior High School opened across the street from where you stand in the 900 block of Rhode Island Avenue.
In 1966, the school’s attendance boundaries were used to define "The Shaw School Urban Renewal Area," and a neighborhood name that had been used informally by residents was put on the map. The plan was adopted in part as a plan to guide reconstruction of the neighborhood after the 1968 riots.
In 1977, a new Shaw Junior High School opened across the street from where you stand in the 900 block of Rhode Island Avenue.
LOT 14022, no. 14 [P&P] - Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
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