America's Most Dangerous 1800s Criminal Slum (Murder Bay in Washington D.C)

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[@EAG46]

I live in the suburbs of DC and it's funny to think of that area, now full of government buildings, as a place where people lived. Thank you for always making my Sunday afternoons interesting.

[@FactFeast]

Yes, hard to imagine looking at all those office blocks! A very different world in the past. Thank you EA Gorman.

[@KAdams-dr4pc]

EA Gorman, Washington D.C. has many homeless people !! Not as rosy as you think.

[@mikeyfn-a6684]

No surprise. DC hasn't gotten very much better since. A good friend infact left Jersey for the streets of DC and after several years of self abuse via IV heroin/fentanyl use...shea no longer with us after an infection on her spine just wasn't enough to get her straight. RIP Michelle ❤😓

[@lowrider81hd]

I can only imagine all the restless ghosts haunting the area now under the new developments… 😢

[@smtpgirl]

Well I can vouch that the "Murder Bay" area is non-existent in present day Washington DC, I work in Washington DC. Commute from Maryland to Washington DC daily. My route, Clara Barton Parkway to Canal Road to K Street to Pennsylvania Ave to H Street. I work at 14th Street and New York Ave, NW, one block away from "Murder Bay". A daily occurrence are Secret Service police on bicycles all along that area. My mom was a public health nurse in the 1950s in Foggy Bottom. She worked at DC General Hospital and did neighborhood outreach. That hospital was closed in 2001.

[@FactFeast]

Some of the streets remain, but none of the buildings. DC's old district names had character. I wonder if many residents are aware of them today?

[@WVgrl59]

Yes, this was long ago

[@SmilerORocker]

Thank you, that was interesting

[@lowrider81hd]

Yes it moved into the White House…

[@eekbeatsofficial]

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[@GlazzedDonut]

I've been working 60 hours a week and too busy but happy to see I have some content of yours to enjoy

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[@Beth999]

Love your channel, I'm a big history buff 😍

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[@ranjitverdi5702]

Just a superb channel 👍and interesting thought provoking commentary.

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Thank you very much! It’s great to know you found it compelling.

[@ameliawhite2404]

Interesting, Most of my mother's side of the family and myself were born and lived there.

[@cherylgonzalez3010]

Geeze the 1800s were brutal from top to bottom.they didn't just kill each other they were ruthless. They disfigured and chopped one another up 👹💯😨

[@darcihuddleston8224]

Nothing has changed

[@my-mysknitsaloon]

Hi Fact Feast ! Imagine living there back then ? ! ! This area must be haunted ,any story about such experiences ? Thank you a thousand time for sharing all the gruesome stuff back then, with us. My grandfather immigrated to NewYork in 1912 to some relatives living there. Greetings from Northern Sweden. 🙋🏼‍♀️💝🙋🏼‍♀️

[@FactFeast]

Hello and thank you! I don’t know of any stories of hauntings, but none of these buildings survive, so if there were any tales to tell they probably went with the demolition of the buildings in the 1920s.

[@thequintanashow5058]

What a fitting origin for its current political state of affairs

[@moondancer4660]

Precisely what I was thinking!

[@TDR85]

Lol some people need to shoehorn politics in to everything. Rent free, dude.

[@eileenbauer4601]

Thanks for this fascinating video. I was born in Washington DC and have lived in the vicinity for 60 years. Amazing to compare it now to then!

[@FactFeast]

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[@alomaalber6514]

The Washington Post in 1969 did an expose there were still a few rural style out houses on Capitol Hill at that time, yes, 1969! and the story helped more plumbing and upgrades to arrive in Urban Renewal. There is still a grand mansion in DC over by the Renwick that will never sell, a realtor told me, it was NEVER plumbed! Also there is a book Lost Washington.

[@coyotedust]

I've never seen a black woman in a slum before. I don't know why, I just have seen hundreds of pictures of slums world wide and this is the first time. Thank you for this wonderful collection of historical archival photos and information.

[@laurencetitusoates6328]

Some things just don't change........

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

1:20 I “liked” the timely way when you said it , the word popped up on the screen. Well done.

[@casey3713]

Life just totally sucked until (in the scope of history) very recently. I can see why people struck out into the wilderness with their families for something fresh and open.

[@sircampbell1249]

And history now... tents are back

[@scrapiron1952]

Neighbor Hood is still the same! It's full of Politions!🤔😐🤣😎💪🇺🇸 3:02

[@nafex3740]

Good Luck buddy 👍

[@j.b.4340]

Very interesting

[@FactFeast]

Thank you! It’s appreciated.

[@SSanf]

And yet they were better off than many of the homeless who must sleep with no shelter at all in the streets of many of our cities today. Such accommodations seem luxurious when you are out in the rain with no umbrella.

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks FF❤

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[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

@@FactFeast I loved it😊

[@rwm4738]

There are homeless encampments a stone's throw away from the White House in 2023.

[@jarrodhendricks7237]

12:50 people living in old shacks unfit for human habitation? Reminds me of some of the older dorms I live in when I was at GW in Foggy Bottom!

[@michaelumucslie4410]

They finally renovated Thurston Hall

[@Khatoon170]

How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. As always iam gathering key points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s murder bAy in Washington d. C was disputable slum in Washington, D.C. . Roughly bounded by constitution avenue Pennsylvania Avenue . This area was centre of crime through early 20 th century with extensive criminal underclass and prostitution occurring in several brothels and hotels in area . This area was completely rebuilt during construction of federal triangle project in late 1920s and 1930s . During American civil war so many prostitutes took up residence in murder bay to serve needs of general Joseph hooker army of Potomac area became known as hooker division. Now site of national gallery of art became home of expensive brothels that gained nickname marable Alley . In 1870s and 1880s Avenue was site of competition horse drawn street car and chariot companies . Large house known as bull head existed at hotel that now is ebbitt grill . House marked north west corner of murder bay bull head house prostitutes and contained large lower class gambling den . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English language as well. Good luck to you your family friends happy Easter .

[@FactFeast]

Thank you KHATOON. It’s great to know you found the history so interesting. Much appreciated!

[@curbyourshi1056]

Now you've got me bingeing after 2 months of not even getting you recommended even with the bell icon belled. Bloody KZbin...

[@dearbrad1996]

Should it come as any surprise that conditions like this were accepted.?

[@darcihuddleston8224]

Because the poor are blamed for their own conditions. Still are

[@MegaLivingIt]

Very interesting to read about Washington!

[@persephonelipuma9691]

i would love a video on philadelphia and boston in the late 1800s

[@filmsforsmartpeople3587]

"YUCK!!"...as Dave Chappelle would eloquently reply....

[@brianoneil9662]

I think it's not a good sign that when I saw "Murder Bay" I went "Ooooh! Cool!" Then again, it's here, so, ooooh! Cool!

[@FactFeast]

Definitely a bizarre name and that provokes interest!

[@mathoskualawa9000]

I've been to Foggy Bottom for the first time July this year (2023). It's still very bad. No shortage of beggars and crime.

[@E-D-E2704]

My granny lived in soggy bottom... or was it she had a soggy bottom ? Such a long time ago 🙄

[@Rebelartist83]

What are you talking about it's still that way in D.C except it's now criminals in suits with college educations and political degree's. and probably a copy of Nicolo Machiavelli's the prince..as a capital hill training manual..D.C. district of criminals or Dept of clownery as my grandpa would say..I'm not sure if I'd want to live in DC back then but I think I'd take a NYC slum over this one..not sure if I would now.. couldn't afford the living conditions and inflation lol.

[@davidsigalow7349]

The only difference is that, today, the police do occasionally arrest a killer/stabber/ thief, only to see him released without bail the next day.

[@elias560]

You're comparing people who steal to killers? And please give evidence of the released without bail thing.

[@alomaalber6514]

There is also a book Lost Washington. Happy to report the brick building with the Coca-Cola ad is still visible from the train as you near the US Capitol and ONE balcony with new wooden railings to "represent" what used to be there.

[@coconutsmarties]

Knicker selling..?! 😅

[@damonmelendez856]

They were just as perverted as we are now..

[@djdeemz7651]

Would you rather - Be rich but live back then or be poor and live now ?

[@darcihuddleston8224]

Wealth buys a lot of comfort

[@tinygrim]

That's a no brainer. To me at least being 60 ....rich back then.

[@kiki_yagelovskaya]

A few years ago I would have said now, but right now I would rather go for rich and back then.

[@ahassan4151]

Be poor here, cos healthcare is still better and food is less scarce. It’s better to be poor here as there’s a chance of not becoming poor anymore

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

Only people who don't know anything about history would want to be wealthy and live then. People today are so ridiculously ungrateful and useless that they think times are difficult now. People of today wouldn't even survive back then long enough to spend the money. There weren't all these free government programs and money to save your ass when you failed because freedom is a huge responsibility that no one seems to take seriously anymore. Your next question to show how ridiculous and stupid people are today should be to ask how many people, if they lived in 1860 Alabama, would have been abolitionists and how many people would have supported slavery. Watch all of the virtue signaling idiots and uneducated clowns pretend that of course because they are such good people and better than everyone else that they would have all been abolitionists. You know, even though they probably would have lost their jobs, if they owned a business it would be ruined, houses burnt down, family members threatened and maybe killed, but yeah they would have been the abolitionists. I hate people today.

[@xx7secondsxx]

I heard MUURRRland was a hard place! That's how people say it up there "MurrLand" or "BurrKang" for burger king. Was a rad spot

[@axhed]

"criminal class that once walked its streets." ha ha ha good thing there's no criminals walking around the federal triangle these days, right guys? ha ha ha

[@eduardodelatorre9439]

🤣🤣🤣...good one!!!

[@charlespittsjr604]

Its amazing how nasty humans can be with out real law and order. Wonder why we have building codes just imagine that canal and how polluted it was back then.

[@syxxpoppin8830]

@2:08 what film is that

[@lianalonge1984]

Foggy Bottom today is one of the best places to live in DC.

[@youtubesux6361]

Even though the tennaments are gone its still has a ton of prostitutes and pimps there everyday 😂😂😂

[@DominicTaylor-lm5uf]

Ancestors were in slavery in the 1800.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they stay putting they negativity on others

[@xx7secondsxx]

Plus DC was a hardcore place. IT ACTUALLY HAVE BIRTH TO THE STRAIGHT-EDGE MOVEMENT!! Minor Threat was the band that started the WHOLE thing! They were in DC and they saw how kids were being wasters and they wanted to Rise Above that. What it became after them is a complete mess of stuff but yea, "no drinks, no drugs, no randumb sex" were the rules. DC is a HARDCORE HOOD in parts man!! The Nation's Capital! Yeaa.... you ino the BIGGEST BRIGHTEST LIGHTS!!! have the darkest shadows all around it!!

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

Can you please do a review of assassin’s creed syndicate

[@robert8124]

Nothing has changed to this day...

[@rezzer7918]

I doubt it

[@libraS.A.]

Well...I was actually born and raised in the worst part of D.C. Southeast.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

2:51 A very poignant illustration. There is something to be said, for a soldier who swore to defend the country it’s people and the constitution with their lives, come back ( Thank God!) , but with missing pieces, and then Uncle Sam only says , well thank you, okay you’re all set, see ya.” So, what is said?

[@ABerCul]

Here's some truth for you. Especially if you live in a subdivision or apartment complex. There use to be graveyards there and most of the buried are still buried there. They just took all the headstones and such and used them to shore up riverbank, & ect. They were old Cemetery that even their families forgot about over time. YES, this is very very true and still happening. But better to build over than to disturb in my eyes. I will say they should make all caskets made out of metals or plastics illegal because they are truley destroying the earth and keeping the Earth from being able to absorb the bodies as fuel for the soil.

[@davidreay5911]

If such a thing as 'Karma' actually exists, then 'Payback' must also exist. A downward spiral will result in disease having only one outcome.

[@lynnemurphy114]

💚

[@FactFeast]

Thanks for your support Lynne!

[@BaeBeCon]

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[@prestonhanson501]

Our poor are now genuine zombies

[@scienz]

hoo-kurrr

[@DominicTaylor-lm5uf]

That's why it's so much killing now, colonial people been killing, we learned from the best

[@mijiyoon5575]

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[@FactFeast]

Thank you Miji. Much appreciated.

[@JRCinKY]

I am surprised that he didn't blame all this violence on Donald Trump.

[@drivenmad7676]

Today we have Bidens brigade stationed around theW.H.

[@johnhough9593]

Lemme guess- democrat run?