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Sitting in Rock Creek Park at Tilden Street NW and Beach Drive is a living relic of Washington history: Peirce Mill belongs to the era when the nation’s capital was also an industrial town. Now ...
Peirce Mill is silent now, its wooden water wheel and flume rotting in the picturesque landscape of Rock Creek Park. These days, the simple stone granite building is a museum and frequent ...
Eating authentic food is the latest fetish for foodies and even for us more casual consumers. We are urged to get closer to the source of what we eat. So we want our vegetables and fruits to come ...
The do-si-do was alive and well outside Peirce Mill, a 19th-century gristmill in Rock Creek Park, this past Saturday. Several hundred dancers, both experts and newbies, returned for the mill’s first ...
Hike or bike through Rock Creek Park is ranked #29 out of 41 things to do in Washington, D.C.. ... and Peirce Mill operates from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Rock Creek Heritage Day is Saturday, and the event will celebrate the complete rehabilitation done on Peirce Mill. For the first time in more than 20 years, the mill will turn and once again grind ...
In 1892, the federal government acquired Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park, one of the mills used by local farmers during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In 1950, ...
Deep in Rock Creek Park, at Beach Drive and Tilden Street Northwest, sits the largely forgotten Peirce Mill, a relic of Old World ingenuity, a place where the production of flour and bran turned ...
Torrential downpours on Thursday produced more than 3 inches of rain in parts of Northwest D.C. causing Rock Creek to surge out of its banks near the Maryland line, Peirce Mill and Waterside Drive.
The closure between Broad Branch Road NW and Pierce Mill is part of a larger 3.7-mile renovation project that will consolidate the existing paths into part of the Rock Creek Park Multi-Use Trail ...