14 Facts About Kingman Park

Kingman Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, D C, the capital city of the United States.

Kingman Park's boundaries are 15th Street NE to the west; C Street SE to the south; Benning Road to the north; and Anacostia Park to the east.

Kingman Park is named after Brigadier General Dan Christie Kingman, the former head of the United States Army Corps of Engineers .

The D C government agreed in 1905, the United States Commission of Fine Arts and the Army Corps of Engineers concurred in 1914, and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission signed on to the park plan in 1928.

Efforts to open a junior high school for African American students in the Kingman Park area began around 1920, but it was not until 1930 that the D C public school system actually built one.

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The Kingman Park voters lost their suit when the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held in 2003 that the District's actions did not violate federal law.

In 2015 all Kingman Park residents were granted Ward 6 vehicle registration stickers and parking privileges.

Talks between the Washington Redskins football team and the D C government over whether to build a new stadium began in 1988, and almost immediately Kingman Park residents protested that they had not been consulted about the various stadium design proposals.

Two years after the stadium battle, Kingman Park residents began protesting plans to build a large theme park for children on nearby Kingman Island.

Once again, Kingman Park residents were worried about traffic and parking issues, as well as the possible environmental degradation construction might have on Anacostia Park and the Anacostia River.

Kingman Park residents have been deeply concerned about environmental damage to the nearby Anacostia River.

Kingman Park residents protested a major automobile race at RFK Stadium in 2002 and 2003.

Kingman Park residents were further angered when American Le Mans racing officials reneged on a promise to remove the Jersey barriers outlining the racecourse from stadium parking lots, leaving the unsightly structures behind and preventing the lots from being used for parking.

Kingman Park residents were upset about the noise, smoke, and debris the fireworks would cause, as well as the possibility of fire in their neighborhood.